Concoction

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of perfecting or maturing.

II. Concoction ·noun A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

III. Concoction ·noun The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination.

IV. Concoction ·noun Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition.

V. Concoction ·noun The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.