Hypertext Webster Gateway: "concoction"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Concoction \Con*coc"tion\, n. [L. concoctio.]
1. A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition;
digestion. [Obs.]
2. The act of concocting or preparing by combining different
ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.
3. The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising;
rumination. --Donne.
4. (Med.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and
return to a normal condition. [Obs.]
5. The act of perfecting or maturing. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
concoction
n 1: any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he
hesitated to taste the strange concoction"; "he drank a
mixture of beer and lemonade" [syn: {mixture}, {intermixture}]
2: an occurrence of an unusual mixture
3: the act of creating something by compounding or mixing raw
materials [syn: {confection}]
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