posset in English
- posset⇄noun a hot drink made of milk curdled, as by ale or wine, and sweetened and spiced. It was formerly widely used as a remedy for colds.
- posset⇄posset, noun, verb, -seted,-setingor (sometimes)-setted,-setting.
- posset⇄v.t. 1. to give or administer a posset to.
Ex. As she laid him in bed and possetted him, how frail and fragile he looked (Arnold Bennett).
2. (Obsolete.) to curdle like a posset.