(n.) A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot.
(n.) A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.
(n.) A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) First-past-the-post seemed to freeze the old system in aspic.
(2) "Radio 4 is a national treasure but it is not one set in aspic," said Liddiment, adding that he was not asking for radical changes to the station's output.
(3) That's a recipe for everything left in aspic, whatever the cost.
(4) I think that he got it just about right, but nothing is preserved in aspic.
(5) Aspic makes a comeback, enclosing diced vegetables and a soft-boiled egg, quickly heated beforehand, or wild mushrooms with foie gras mousse.
(6) For the Monarch flights, foie gras was cut into sausage shapes, decorated, put in the freezer, then I’d pour hot aspic over them.
(7) In fact I rather hope it will, for the loyal and the new audience share one thing in common – their belief that personal tastes and canons of music don’t exist in aspic.
(8) The dominating vehicle of botulism was in 61% of the notified cases a home-prepared food; usually a galantine, aspic, liver paste, pork with vegetables, and smoked pork.
(9) I don't believe in preserving London's skyline in aspic but I do think the fact that London is a predominantly low-rise city is a great asset - it feels open and human.
(10) It's been frozen in aspic for too long … You'll see the edges of Shoreditch creeping into EastEnders .
(11) First, can it face down the forces of conservatism on the left, in unions and in the media who believe the public sector should be preserved in aspic?
(12) A factor X activator was isolated from the venom of Vipera aspis aspis (Aspic viper) by gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography.
(13) It's been frozen in aspic for too long," Treadwell-Collins told the latest issue of Radio Times.
(14) Seventy years on, we should celebrate Beveridge's vision and laud the Labour ministers who enacted his proposals – not by asking how we freeze today's welfare state in aspic, but, instead, how we become the radical reformers once again.
(15) So we see the life in these letters unfold as if preserved in the emotional equivalent of aspic, the juvenile tones emerging at the most unlikely moments.
(16) The whole thing looks like a plate of Nan’s jellied meats in aspic, the outer reaches wobbling about gleefully while the insides remain solid.
(17) egg, cream, rice, cold meat, seafood, aspic and mayonnaise.
(18) Labour politicians and campaigners have condemned the head of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council for suggesting that public libraries are primarily used by the white middle classes The controversial comments were made by Roy Clare, the council's chief executive, who argued that the service should not be preserved in "aspic".
(19) He reiterated the Conservative party's view that using a portion of the BBC's licence fee to "prop up regional news simply casts a failed regional TV model in aspic".
(20) "We shouldn't take a particular version of the family institution, such as the 1950s model, and try and preserve it in aspic," he said.