potion
a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers: a love potion; a sleeping potion.
Origin of potion
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Words that may be confused with potion
- portion, potion
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Then, pick your potion from the recipes below and load that puppy up.
4 Hot Cocktail Recipes to Save Your Winter Social Life | AC Shilton | December 17, 2020 | Outside OnlineMaking these potions has become second nature to me—in the back of my mind I’m always wondering what would be nice in my afternoon herbal tea.
Mix your own delicious herbal tea using leftover spices | By Kristy Mucci/Saveur | December 4, 2020 | Popular-ScienceGeneral potion principlesIt’s also worth keeping some spice notes in mind.
Mix your own delicious herbal tea using leftover spices | By Kristy Mucci/Saveur | December 4, 2020 | Popular-ScienceI like a wine-dark potion of whole coffee beans, which offer a deeper, rounder flavor than powder, and dried bay leaves, which I first crush to release their woodsy perfume.
This bo ssam dream is within reach, and it starts with your Instant Pot | Eric Kim | October 28, 2020 | Washington PostSheldrake focused on Stamets’ solution for colony collapse disorder, feeding bees a fungal potion that can squelch a virus they may carry from environmental toxins.
How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment - Issue 90: Something Green | Mark MacNamara | September 30, 2020 | Nautilus
The rooms come equipped with 4-poster wooden beds, potion bottles, cauldrons, and Hogwartsian accents—perfect for us mere muggles.
Stay in the Magical ‘Harry Potter’ Hotel: London’s Georgian House Offers ‘Wizard’s Chambers’ | Marlow Stern | October 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey are then blended with chicken broth and that potion is thickened with cream.
A California Tavern With an Artichoke Obsession | Jane & Michael Stern | June 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOrange Is the New Black returns to Netflix with a wildly addictive potion of darkness, estrogen, and one-liners.
‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season Two Is More Bingeworthy Than the First | Kevin Fallon | May 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAccording to the exhibition, a second person tried the same potion and died.
This Exhibit Could Kill You: The Museum of Natural History Takes on Poison | William O’Connor | January 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBesides, you might find just that right potion to spice up the weekend.
This Exhibit Could Kill You: The Museum of Natural History Takes on Poison | William O’Connor | January 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd it is not a bitter potion, such as Alfred ordered; no, it is balmy with the scent of wild flowers.
Child Life In Town And Country | Anatole FranceIn the agitated form of melancholia, the patient is often quiet only when under the influence of a sleeping-potion.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyThat look had been a theft from Sylvia, not a gift; but she had given him the potion at last.
The Opened Shutters | Clara Louise BurnhamNessus, before expiring, instructed Dejanira how to prepare a love potion for Hercules.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James GrantAt length the young lady of Balnagowan tasted her sister-in-law's infernal potion, whereby she contracted an incurable disease.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James Grant
British Dictionary definitions for potion
/ (ˈpəʊʃən) /
a drink, esp of medicine, poison, or some supposedly magic beverage
a rare word for beverage
Origin of potion
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