posset Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer

WordNet

Pos"set noun
Etymology
W. posel curdled milk, posset.
Definitions
  1. 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.
Pos"set transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Posseted; present participle & verbal noun Posseting
Definitions
  1. To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood. Obs. Shak.
  2. To treat with possets; to pamper. R. "She was cosseted and posseted." O. W. Holmes.

Webster 1913