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Seasoning   /sˈizənɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Seasoning  n.  
1.
The act or process by which anything is seasoned.
2.
That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment.
3.
Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the seasoning of conversation. "Political speculations are of so dry and austere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasonings."
Seasoning tub (Bakery), a trough in which dough is set to rise.



verb
Season  v. t.  (past & past part. seasoned; pres. part. seasoning)  
1.
To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit. "He is fit and seasoned for his passage."
2.
To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
3.
Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
4.
To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.
5.
Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agreeable. "You season still with sports your serious hours." "The proper use of wit is to season conversation."
6.
To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper. "When mercy seasons justice."
7.
To imbue; to tinge or taint. "Who by his tutor being seasoned with the love of the truth." "Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles."
8.
To copulate with; to impregnate. (R.)



Season  v. i.  
1.
To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
2.
To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
3.
To give token; to savor. (Obs.)






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"Seasoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... the emperor kept within the bounds of moderation; and Petronius acted as intendant of his pleasures, ordering him shows, games, comedies, music, feats, and all that could contribute to make the hours of relaxation pass agreeably; seasoning, at the same time, the innocent delights which he procured for the emperor with every possible charm, to prevent him from seeking after such as might prove pernicious both to morals and the republic. Nero, however, ...
— The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete - To Which Are Added, His Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets • C. Suetonius Tranquillus

... constantly and prevents their segregation. In each cast is inserted the proper reinforcing rods, lifting hooks and tie rods, and the casts are allowed to remain for a proper period in the wet sand after they are poured; they are then taken to the seasoning room which is kept at as constant a temperature as it is practical to maintain. Each cast is marked with the number which determines its location in the building and the date it was cast, and it is then kept in the storage shed a fixed ...
— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette

... cried Wilhelm, "or I shall take you at your word and you'll be obliged to pay my score for life. Olive-oil is a pure, savory seasoning." ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... looked over the charge books, admirably kept, and found the prevention so good that there were not five hundred entries (including drunken and disorderly) in a whole year. Then, we looked into the store-room; where there was an oakum smell, and a nautical seasoning of dreadnought clothing, rope yarn, boat-hooks, sculls and oars, spare stretchers, rudders, pistols, cutlasses, and the like. Then, into the cell, aired high up in the wooden wall through an opening like a kitchen plate-rack: wherein there was a drunken man, not at all ...
— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens

... business was like an acorn, which might be the mother of a great tree. So he gave his hand to Burge on that bargain, and went home with his mind full of happy visions, in which (my refined reader will perhaps be shocked when I say it) the image of Hetty hovered, and smiled over plans for seasoning timber at a trifling expense, calculations as to the cheapening of bricks per thousand by water-carriage, and a favourite scheme for the strengthening of roofs and walls with a peculiar form of iron girder. What then? Adam's enthusiasm lay in ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot


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