Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small basin or porringer; also, a small vessel of fanciful form.

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

  • noun A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.

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  • noun obsolete A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.

Etymologies

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Old French

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Examples

  • Take two pound of _Barbary Sugar_, Clarifie it with a pint of water, and the whites of two _Eggs_, then boyle it in a posnet to the height of _Manus Christi_, then put it into an earthen Pipkin and therewith the things that you will Candy, as _Cinamon, Ginger, Nutmegs,

    A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous

  • Nym flour and wytys of eyryn sugur other hony and sweyng togedere and mak a batour nym wyte grees and do yt in a posnet and cast the batur thereyn and stury to thou have many [2] and tak hem up and messe hem wyth the frutours and serve forthe.

    The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

  • Take a broad frying posnet, or deep frying pan, and three pints of clarified butter or sweet suet, heat it as hot as you do for fritters; then take a stick and stir it till it run round like to a whirle-pit; then break an egg into the middle of the whirle, and turn it round with your stick till it be as hard as a soft poached egg, and the whirling round of the butter or suet will make round as

    The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

  • Atomik Harmonik; Avto Prodaja plovil; pvc okna; Sex erotika; Traktorji; Video iskalnik; Vreme; Sex filmi. sex; sex09. 1.5 | Igre, igraÄe in konjiÄki, oprema za Å¡port, taborjenje in rekreacijo na in oprema, kot so elektriÄni vrtalniki, žage in Å¡karje za živo mejo, vrtni traktorji igre s traktorji igre sa sue igre san andreas igre san francisco furniture igre seks v mestu igre sestavljanke igre sestavljanke puzle igre sex za otrokeFilm je posnet po resniÄnih dogodkih in pripoveduje Miniclip igre; Nagradne igre; okna; Okna; online igre; PohiÅ¡tvo; Prevajanje; Pvc okna; Sex;

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • 'hatonismum Jumorem secutua negare non posnet, Aiyaf ab cterao ineaae Deo« taaqusm rationem SMSMiakm in eo aubsitteiitemf ubi aaieai lauwli -

    The General Repository and Review 1813

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  • Boiled scraps and leftover slaws get

    Decanted with herbs through a gauze net.

    That filtering cloth

    Produces a broth

    You're proud to serve up in your posnet.

    March 23, 2017