Meaning

A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine..

Definitions by Sense

1. A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.
2. A baby's vomit, comprising curdled milk.
3. A pudding-like food composed of cream, sugar, and other flavorings, such as lemon.
4. (obsolete) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.
5. To treat with possets; to pamper.
6. (of a baby) To vomit up curdled milk.

Example Sentences

I have drugged their possets.

Some people will tell you that this position may allow inhalation of posset, but there is no evidence to support this.

Derek saw that a smear of posset had appeared on the left shoulder of his jacket [...] He smiled softly at Charlotte and said softly, 'I've been puked on.'

While a little posseting is nothing to be worried about, a lot of posset is more likely to be 'reflux'.

LEMON POSSET / WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS : The classic English dessert lemon posset transforms cream, sugar, and lemon into a lush pudding with clean citrus flavor. It is the easiest dessert you've never made.[…]

to posset the blood

[…] And with a ſodaine vigour it [Hebenon, a poison] doth poſſet / And curd, like Aygre [vinegar] droppings into Milke, / The thin and wholſome blood: […]

Nevertheless, as she laid him in bed and posseted him, how frail and fragile he looked!

Word Forms

• possets
• posseting
• posseted

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