אֲשִׁישָׁה, anything made compact and substantial by pressing, whence
אֲשִׁישָׁה, cake, pan-cake (in Bible pressed raisin-cake). Pes. 36ᵇ excluding from ‘bread of misery’, חלוט וא׳ pudding and pan-cake. [Talmudic etymology, ibid., ‘one sixth of an epha of flour made into a cake’.] Y. ib. II, 29ᵇ bot.—Bab. ib. l. c. Samuel says א׳ גרבא וכ׳ăshishah (II Sam. VI, 19) means a jug of wine (v. preced.).—Pl. אֲשִׁישׁוֹת (b. h.). Ḥull. 124ᵇ אני היום סמכוני בא׳ to me to-day the Bibl. words apply, ‘Support me with cakes’ (Cant. II, 5); Bets. 21ᵃ
אֲשִׁישָׁה, pl. אֲשִׁישִׁים, אֲשִׁישִׁיןcakes made of boiled lentils impregnated with honey. Ned. VI, 10; cmp. Y. ib. 40ᵃ bot.