• Aspic

    Noun

    aspic

    (plural aspics)
    1. a dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
    2. (obsolete, poetic) an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
      • 1623, William Shakespeare, :This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves
        Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves.
    3. A piece of ordnance carrying a 12-pound shot.

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    Adjective

    aspic

    1. aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
      • 1923, Wallace Stevens, , Faber and Faber (2001), ISBN 978-0571207794, page 3,Timeless mother,
        How is it that your aspic nipples
        For once vent honey?

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