Posset vs Pomset - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between posset and pomset

is that posset is a beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine while pomset is partial ordered multiset.

is to curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.

(en noun)

A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.

* Shakespeare

I have drugged their posset .

(en verb)

(obsolete) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.

to posset the blood

To treat with possets; to pamper.

* 1908 , Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale

Nevertheless, as she laid him in bed and posseted him, how frail and fragile he looked!

* (pamper) coddle, cosset, pamper

* sneck posset * give a sneck posset

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(en noun)

(mathematics) Partial ordered multiset.

As usual, pomsets can be made setlike by requiring that the elements of the sets ''X'' should be chosen from a given set.