| Taste |
v. t. |
To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. |
| Taste |
v. t. |
To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively. |
| Taste |
v. t. |
To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of. |
| Taste |
v. t. |
To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo. |
| Taste |
v. t. |
To partake of; to participate in;
usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure. |
| Taste |
v. i. |
To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine. |
| Taste |
v. i. |
To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic. |
| Taste |
v. i. |
To take sparingly. |
| Taste |
v. i. |
To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. |
| Taste |
n. |
The act of tasting; gustation. |
| Taste |
n. |
A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste. |
| Taste |
n. |
The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste. |
| Taste |
n. |
Intellectual relish; liking; fondness;
formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study. |
| Taste |
n. |
The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment. |
| Taste |
n. |
Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste. |
| Taste |
n. |
Essay; trial; experience; experiment. |
| Taste |
n. |
A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten; a bit. |
| Taste |
n. |
A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. |
| Tasted |
imp. & p. p. |
of Taste |
| Tasteful |
a. |
Having a high relish; savory. |
| Tasteful |
a. |
Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery. |
| Tasteless |
a. |
Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. |
| Tasteless |
a. |
Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. |
| Tasteless |
a. |
Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. |
| Taster |
n. |
One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality. |
| Taster |
n. |
That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like. |
| Taster |
n. |
One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. |
