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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A clear jelly typically made of stock and gelatin and used as a glaze or garnish or to make a mold of meat, fish, or vegetables.
  2. n. Archaic An asp.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A venomous serpent: same as asp, but used chiefly in poetry.
  2. n. A piece of ordnance of small caliber.
  3. n. The great lavender, Lavandula spica. See lavender.
  4. n. In cookery, a side dish consisting of a clear, savory meat-jelly containing fowl, game, fish, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
  2. n. obsolete an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
  3. adj. aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Chiefly poetic The venomous asp.
  2. n. obsolete A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot.
  3. n. A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See spike.
  4. n. A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables

Etymologies

  1. French, from aspic, asp (from the resemblance of the jelly's coloration to an asp's); see aspic2.French, from Old French, alteration of aspe, from Latin aspis; see asp. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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