sherbet

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A frozen dessert made mainly of fruit juice or fruit purée, usually with sugar and milk or cream.
• noun Chiefly British A usually fruit-flavored effervescent powder, eaten as candy or made into a drink.
• noun Australian An alcoholic beverage, especially beer.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A favorite cooling drink of the East, made of fruit-juices diluted with water, and variously sweetened and flarvored. It is cooled with snow when this can be procured.
• noun A water-ice, variously flavored.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways
• noun A flavored water ice.
• noun A preparation of bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, sugar, etc., variously flavored, for making an effervescing drink; -- called also sherbet powder.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A food of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.
• noun A powder made of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and flavourings, intended to be eaten alone or mixed with water to make a drink.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin