Aspic
Noun
- a dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
- (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.
- A piece of ordnance carrying a 12-pound shot.
Full definition of aspic
Adjective
- 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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