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.
To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood. [Obs.] Shak.
To treat with possets; to pamper. [R.] "She was cosseted and posseted." O. W. Holmes.
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