aspics

Noun

aspic (countable and uncountable, plural aspics)

1. A meat or fish jelly.
   • “Put a little aspic in the mould, so as to cover the bottom ···“1819, Frederick Nutt, Nutt, F. (1819). The Imperial and Royal Cook. Consisting of the Most Sumptuous Made Dishes ... Including the Latest Improvements in Fashionable Life. 2nd Ed. United Kingdom...
2. A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
   • "I don't know what you mean, Mr. Wynand," whispered Keating. His eyes fixed upon the tomato aspic on his salad plate; it was soft and shivering; it made him sick.1943, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 441
3. (obsolete, poetic) An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
   • This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves / Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
4. (obsolete) A light cannon firing a two-pound ball.

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