POSSET

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly. "I have drugged their posset." Shak.

2.
v.

To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood. [Obs.] Shak.

3.
v.

To treat with possets; to pamper. [R.] "She was cosseted and posseted." O. W. Holmes.