Aspic

Definitions

1. A meat or fish jelly.
   countable, uncountable
2. A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
   countable, uncountable
3. An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
   countable, obsolete, poetic, uncountable
4. A light cannon firing a two-pound ball.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

““Put⟳ a little aspic in the mould, so as to cover⟳ the bottom ···“”

“"I don't know⟳ what you mean⟳, Mr. Wynand," whispered Keating. His eyes fixed upon the tomato aspic on his salad plate; it was soft and shivering; it made him sick.”

“This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves / Have⟳ slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves.”

“(With that she tore her robe apart, and half / The polished argent of her breast to sight / Laid bare. Thereto she pointed with a laugh⟳, / Showing the aspic's bite⟳. )”

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