Chocolate

(chok'-o-ldt), i. A dried paste prepared from the powder of cacao-seeds (sec Cacao) with various mucilaginous and amylaceous ingredients. 2. A beverage prepared from the foregoing. 3. A sugared comfit, variously compounded and flavored, containing some proportion of the foregoing paste; sometimes medicated, as with cinchona, scammony, or magnesia. C, African. See Iba .