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9 words match “GRAVY”

GRAVY n. 2 definitions
The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
BOAT n.
A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
BOUILLI n.
Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.
DIP n.
A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.
DRAWN p.
See Draw, v. t. & i. Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from…
FRICASSEE n.
dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.
SEW n.
Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. [Obs.] Gower. I will not tell of their strange sewes. Chaucer.
STOCK n.
arts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc. Bit stock. See Bitstock. -- Dead stock (Agric.), the implements of husbandry, and produce stored up for use; -- in distinction from live stock, or the domestic animals on the farm. See def. 10, above. -- Head stock.…
TOAST n.
ly in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc. toaster. My sober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. T. Warton.