Crossword-Solution: POSSET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Posset | n. | A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly. |
| Posset | v. t. | To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood. |
| Posset | v. t. | To treat with possets; to pamper. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POSSET | anagram | ESTOPS, PESTOS, POSETS, STOEPS, STOPES |
We have 16 clues for the answer “POSSET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hot drink with wine or ale | 1 answer |
| Hot milk curdled with ale | 1 answer |
| Hot milk drink | 1 answer |
| Hot milk-and-wine drink | 1 answer |
| Hot mixture of milk with ale, wine, etc. | 1 answer |
| Milk beverage. | 1 answer |
| OLD drink | 1 answer |
| OLD time beverage | 1 answer |
| Spiced hot milk and wine | 1 answer |
| Sweet spiced hot milk curdled with beer | 1 answer |
| drink of hot milk curdled with ale, beer, etc, flavoured with spices | 1 answer |
| Hot spiced drink | 5 answers |
| Spiced drink | 5 answers |
| CURDLED | 5 answers |
| curdled milk | 12 answers |
| HOT drink | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECMEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with POSSET (5)
Yes, I said, and I do not believe that there were any such diseases in the days of Asclepius; and this I infer from the circumstance that the hero Eurypylus, after he has been wounded in Homer, drinks a posset of Pramnian wine well besprinkled with barley-meal and grated cheese, which are certainly inflammatory, and yet the sons of Asclepius who were at the Trojan war do not blame the damsel who gives him the drink, or rebuke Patroclus, who is treating his case.
That night Prince Alexis lay down in the corridor, outside of Helena's door: he glared fiercely at the nurse as she entered with the birth-posset for the young mother.
Very likely it is, indeed, that Sarah encountered the girl going out with the blue mug for milk to make a sack posset, and she may have slipped in by the open door to hide under the bed until the moment was ripe for her terrible intention.
Milk lightning still asswageth; So when our fury rageth, As th' only means to cross it, Wee'l drown it in love's posset.
Ergo cum recipero non posset area plana tantam multitudinem in urbe, ad auxilium altitudinis aedificiorum res ipsa coegit devenire.
Quotes with POSSET (1)
Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1961–2013).