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noun
Savor  n.  (Written also savour)  
1.
That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor. "I smell sweet savors and I feel soft things."
2.
Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like. "Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savor of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?"
3.
Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. (R.) "Beyond my savor."
4.
Pleasure; delight; attractiveness. (Obs.) "She shall no savor have therein but lite."
Synonyms: Taste; flavor; relish; odor; scent; smell.


verb
Savor  v. i.  (past & past part. savored; pres. part. savoring)  (Written also savour)  
1.
To have a particular smell or taste; with of.
2.
To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; with of. "This savors not much of distraction." "I have rejected everything that savors of party."
3.
To use the sense of taste. (Obs.) "By sight, hearing, smelling, tasting or savoring, and feeling."





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"Savour" Quotes from Famous Books



... and did not say a word, but the stew lost all savour for him, and he did not hear Panteley and Vassya intervening on his behalf. A feeling of anger with the insulting fellow was rankling oppressively in his breast, and he made up his mind that he would do him some ...
— The Bishop and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... was diffused through the vault which, if the vapours of a witch's cauldron could in aught be trusted, promised better things than the hell-broth which such vessels are usually supposed to contain. It was, in fact, the savour of a goodly stew, composed of fowls, hares, partridges, and moor-game boiled in a large mess with potatoes, onions, and leeks, and from the size of the cauldron appeared to be prepared for half a dozen of people ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... breathe the perfume of thine hair: Bury in thy deep hair my fevered face, Till as to men athirst in desert dreams The savour and colour and sound of cool dark streams Float round me everywhere, And memories float from some forgotten place, Fulfilling hopeless eyes with hopeless tears And ...
— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... possibly have led to his escape; for he is a man of no common boldness and resource. These facts I shall now set forth. But I have, I confess, no liking for the story of treachery and perverted cleverness which I have to tell. It leaves an evil taste in the mouth, a savour of something revolting in the deeper puzzle of motive underlying thc puzzle of the crime itself, which I believe ...
— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
... keen savour of the foam,— Thou dost bear unto the west Fragrance from thy woody home, Where perchance a house is thine Odorous of ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson


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