The sense or faculty of taste. Obsolete.

Taste, smack, flavour; †also, the sense of taste.

The function of swallowing; the sense of taste; transferred a taste, a small quantity tasted (in quot. quot. figurative). Obsolete.

Tasting, sense of taste: see swallow, v. 2.

The faculty or sense by which that particular quality of a thing described in sense 5 is discerned, the organs of which are situated chiefly in the…

figurative or in figurative expressions. referring to eating, esp. to the sense of taste; hence often = taste, liking (cf. palate, n.). See also…

The palate (sense A. 1a) considered as the seat of taste; (hence) the sense of taste; a sense of appreciation of taste and flavour, esp. when…

used as = Tasting. Obsolete. rare.

The action or an act of tasting, enjoying, or savouring something. In early use also: †sense of taste or smell (obsolete).

The sense or faculty of taste; †occasionally an act of tasting or of satisfying the appetite.

The sense of taste.

Sense of taste; capacity for relishing. Obsolete.