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posset, n. Now only Hist. or local.|ˈpɒsɪt|
Forms: 5 posho(o)te, poshotte, poshet, possot, possyt, possate, 5–6 poset, possett, 7 possit, Sc. possat, 5– posset.
[ME. poshote, possot, of unascertained origin. Palsgr. (1530) gives a F. possette, but this is not otherwise known to French scholars. Ir. pusoid, posset, is from English.
Connexion with posca has been suggested.]
1. A drink composed of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor, often with sugar, spices, or other ingredients; formerly much used as a delicacy, and as a remedy for colds or other affections.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 567/22 Balducta, a crudde, Item dicitur, poshet. 14..Metr. Voc. ibid. 625/18 Casius, poshoote. 14..Voc. ibid. 666/9 Hec bedulta, possyt. c1440Promp. Parv. 410/2 Possot, balducta. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 94 Milke, crayme, and cruddes, and eke the Ioncate, Þey close a mannes stomak and so dothe þe possate. 1466Paston Lett. II. 269 For bred, ale, and possets to the same persons, vid. 1530Palsgr. 257/1 Posset of ale and mylke, possette. 1546T. Phaer Bk. Childr. (1553) T vj, Knotgrasse..the iuice therof in a posset dronken..is excedyng good. 1605Shakes. Macb. ii. ii. 6 The surfeted Groomes doe mock their charge With Snores. I haue drugg'd their Possets. 1648Herrick Hesper., To Phillis, Thou shalt have possets, wassails fine; Not made of ale, but spiced wine! 1711Addison Spect. No. 57 ⁋2 [He] can make a Caudle or a Sack-Posset better than any Man in England. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. xxix. (1790) 277 His supper should be light; as small posset, or water-gruel sweetened with honey, and a little toasted bread in it. 1876F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow II. xiii. 205, I do wish he would try a hot posset of a night, just before going to bed.
b. attrib., as posset-ale, posset-basin, posset-bowl, posset-cup, posset-curd, posset-dish, posset-drink, posset-pot.
1528St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 299 A possetale, hauing certein herbes clarified in it. 1551–60in H. Hall Eliz. Soc. (1887) 152 A possett Boule of Pewter. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden 125 Hee lou'd lycoras and drunke posset curd. 1606Sir G. Goosecappe ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 40 Posset Cuppes caru'd with libberds faces and Lyons heads with spouts in their mouths, to let out the posset Ale. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 342 Plain posset drink alone, reasonable warm, will do well. 1680Hon. Cavalier 11, I know some, who prefer..the Possit-Bason before the Hallowed Font. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1765) 59 Drink a Quarter of a Pint of Allum Posset drink. 1821Scott Kenilw. vi, A gold posset-dish to contain the night-draught.
2. dial. The curdled milk vomited by a baby.
(Yorksh. and Lancash. in Eng. Dial. Dict.)
Hence ˈposset v. † (a) trans. to curdle like a posset (obs.); (b) intr. (i) to make a posset; (ii) of a baby: to throw up curdled milk.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. v. 68 And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke The thin and wholsome blood. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xxix, She broke off to go posseting for her dear invalid. 1903Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., Bless its little heart, it's possetting again. [Cited from Westmld. to South Notts.] |