(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.
Jelly
Definition:
(n.) Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like.
(n.) The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly.
(v. i.) To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Focus in this discussion is on the following: 1) female sterilization -- laparotomy, minilaparotomy, and colpotomy; endoscopic sterilization techniques; transcervical approaches to female sterilization; systemic nonsurgical female sterilization; and reversible techniques of female sterilization; 2) abortion -- pregnancy testing, long-term effects; and 3) systemic contraceptives -- steroidal contraception; locally active methods; vaginal foams, creams, and jellies; the diaphragm and other intravaginal barriers; IUDs; and periodic abstine nce.
(2) Those fed royal jelly as larvae emerge as queens and do little but lay eggs.
(3) Following stereotactic biopsy, which yielded a homogeneous jelly-like material, the mass was removed microsurgically and was found to be most like a colloid cyst on histological examination.
(4) Earlier studies have shown that a substance(s) released from the egg jelly of the toad Bufo arenarum is required for fertilization.
(5) In forest, removal of olfactory substances from the human skin, by vigorous washing and application of petroleum jelly, or by wearing impermeable clothing, greatly reduced the numbers of flies attracted.
(6) Tory MPs, whose loyalty to the current leader is a jelly that never properly set, are wobbling all over the place.
(7) During heart development in the chick some of the endocardial cells that cover the cushion areas leave the cushion endocardium, seed the underlying cardiac jelly, and are transformed into mesenchyme.
(8) It is concluded that lignocaine jelly with the use of a spray significantly increases post-operative side-effects.
(9) We report the case of a child who sustained partial thickness burns from a garlic-petroleum jelly plaster, which had been applied at the direction of a naturopathic physician.
(10) But now jellied eels, the gelatinous fare that makes even the most enthusiastic omnivore think twice before tucking in, are becoming popular outside the capital for the first time.
(11) A phantom, electrically adaptable for simulation of various tissues, was developed using agar as the jelly.
(12) The authors' in vitro results, in conjunction with the observations from their two cases, suggest that lidocaine jelly mixed with 1 to 3 parts normal saline may be useful in managing certain types of endotracheal tube cuff incompetence.
(13) These results indicate that the Na+ requirement for the acrosome reaction induced by jelly is lost when triggering is by high pH.
(14) "Jellied eels were always considered a regional dish, much like haggis is to Scotland, mushy peas are to northern England and laver bread is to Wales."
(15) The fucose-sulfate glycoconjugate (FSG) component of sea urchin egg jelly that induces an acrosome reaction in spermatozoa-stimulated multiple Ca2+-dependent phospholipid changes in the sperm cell head and flagellum.
(16) Under natural conditions, the permeability change which results in Ca+2 influx may be induced in echinoid sperm by egg jelly and may occur in mammalian sperm during capacitation.
(17) But each version is named after a dessert (Frozen Yogurt, Jelly Bean) – insufficiently manly, suggested Rob Beschizza.
(18) Petroleum jelly was always used, to prevent heating and desiccation of the specimens.
(19) Jelly release and hydration appears dependent on both a trypsin-like protease and Ca++ and Mg++ ions.
(20) Add to the dough and gently incorporate by hand, mixing the cheese and jelly evenly into the dough.