Taste
- Taste
- Taste Taste, v. i.
1. 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.
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2. 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.
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Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason
Shall to the king taste of this action. --Shak.
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3. To take sparingly.
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For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
--Dryden.
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4. To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake;
as, to taste of nature's bounty. --Waller.
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The valiant never taste of death but once. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
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