Definition of taste

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Taste (n.) A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste..

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Toothsome :: Toothsome (a.) Grateful to the taste; palatable.
Inosite :: Inosite (n.) A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite..
Iodoform :: Iodoform (n.) A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores..
Strychnos :: Strychnine (n.) A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina..
Chamomile :: Chamomile (n.) A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative..
Bedizen :: Bedizen (v. t.) To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.
Refine :: Refine (v. t.) To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings..
Distaste :: Distaste (n.) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish..
Creosote :: Creosote (n.) Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood..
Vinous :: Vinous (a.) Of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine; as, a vinous taste..
Aftertaste :: Aftertaste (n.) A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.
To :: To (prep.) Accord; adaptation; as, an occupation to his taste; she has a husband to her mind..
Ballad Monger :: Ballad monger () A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.
Smatter :: Smatter (v. t.) To gain a slight taste of; to acquire a slight, superficial knowledge of; to smack..
Disgustful :: Disgustful (a.) Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting.
Palate :: Palate (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
Styryl :: Styrone (n.) A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, / styryl, alcohol..
Filbert :: Filbert (n.) The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate..
Caraway :: Caraway (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative..
Taste :: Taste (n.) Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste..
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