rissole

[Fr.] Cook.: An entrée consisting of savory mince of any kind, inclosed in pastry and fried. ri-sŭs, s. [Lat.=laughter.) (See compound.) risus-sardonic us, s. Pathol.: A kind of grin on the features in tetanus. It was anciently attributed to the eating of the Sardoa, Sardous, or Sardonia herb a, i. e., the Sardonian herb, which had leaves like parsley and was sweet; it may have been a Ranunculus. The sardonic grin is a very unfavorable symptom in lesion of the nerves.