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noun

Tasting n. The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.

verb

Taste v. t. (past & past part. tasted; pres. part. tasting)

1.

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. (Obs.) "Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find."

2.

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. "When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine." "When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse."

3.

To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of. "I tasted a little of this honey."

4.

To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo. "He... should taste death for every man."

5.

To partake of; to participate in; usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure. "Thou... wilt taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary."

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.

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. "Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason Shall to the king taste of this action."

3.

To take sparingly. "For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours."

4.

To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. "The valiant never taste of death but once."

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"Tasting" Quotes from Famous Books

... same taste, according to the Indians (whose organs of sense are extremely delicate and well practised), as the waters of the Orinoco near the Great Cataracts. "Bring me the waters of three or four great rivers of these countries," an old Indian of the mission of Javita said to us; "on tasting each of them I will tell you, without fear of mistake, whence it was taken; whether it comes from a white or black river; the Orinoco or the Atabapo, the Paragua or the Guaviare." The great crocodiles ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt

... from doing much of his business; and the people, as was said, being few and poor, he was at this time exposed to great hardships. I have been assured that he and his family have lived for a great while together without tasting animal food, and with but a scanty pittance ...

— The Life of William Carey • George Smith

... It was Aunt Betsey, you fool! Aunt Nancy used to—she has been dead these eighty years, so there is no use in mincing matters—she used to keep a bottle and a stick, and when she had been tasting a drop out of the bottle the stick used to come off the shelf and I had to taste that. And here she is made a saint of, and poor Aunt Betsey, that did everything for me, is slandered by implication as a ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... corresponded; but with Irving literature became all in all, and with Paulding a favorite relaxation from political life and a merely collateral pursuit. He wrote partisan satires and philippics, waxing ever more bitter against the party to which Irving belonged, and against England, where Irving was tasting the sweets of appreciation and success. He came to be Navy Agent at New York in 1823, and in 1838 President Van Buren made him his Secretary of the Navy. Three years later he retired from public life, and spent his remaining days in the tranquil and ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. • Various

... It mattered little to him that Mrs. Colfax ignored him as completely as if his chair had been vacant He glanced at that lady once, and smiled, for he was tasting the sweets of victory. It was Virginia who entertained him, and even the Colonel never guessed what it cost her. Eliphalet himself marvelled at her change of manner, and gloated over that likewise. Not a turn or a quiver of the victim's pain is missed by ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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