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Tasting   /tˈeɪstɪŋ/   Listen
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



... arms, hands, legs, and feet, and suffered excruciating pains in my stomach, till nature relieved me, which she was kind enough to do uncommonly frequent. I had luckily some brandy with me, of which I drank, I should think, half a bottle down without tasting it; but it did me a great deal of good at the time, although I have not been well since, and am still very far from being so. Our camels, of which I had two, were furnished us by the commissariat, and we ought to have had them at four ...
— Campaign of the Indus • T.W.E. Holdsworth

... gentler ways. If I were sure of success, not even my fair friends on the other side of the Channel could keep me from your feet. Maraton, look away from the walls. There's nothing beyond—just a world full of fancies. There's some Sole Otero on your plate which is worth tasting, and there's champagne in your glass. What matter if there are troubles outside? That's ...
— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... should have elegized on for a page or two further, when Harry, who has no idea of the dignity of grief, blundered in, with satisfaction in his countenance, and thrust two packets from you into my hand.- -Alas! he little knew that I was incapable of tasting any satisfaction but in the indulgence of my concern.—I was once going to commit them to the devouring flames, lest any light or vain sentence should tempt me to smile but my turn for true philosophy checked ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... heretofore thought so steril and barren, that nothing almost prospering in it, the inhabitants were quite deserting it, and with their wives and children going to seek some other more propitious abodes; till some of them hapning to come into Italy, and tasting the juice of the delicious grape, the rest of their countreymen took arms, and invaded the territories where those vines grew; which they transplanted into Gallia, and have so infinitely improv'd since, that France alone yields more of that generous ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn

... a world-weary woman, young and beautiful but disillusioned, meets a girl who has learned the art of living—of tasting life in all its richness, opulence and joy. The story hinges upon the change wrought in the soul of the blase woman by this glimpse into a ...
— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley


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