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Tasting beforehand; having a foretaste. [R.] Ed. Rev.

The act of tasting beforehand; foretaste. [R.] Dr. Walker (1678).

A. tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.

r two divisions. They manifest themselves in the contact of substances with the organs of taste, touch, and smell, or otherwise affect the living organism, as in the manner of medicines and poisons.

Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.

Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste. Lowell.

Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice. Pungent radish biting infant's tongue. Shenstone. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.

ine substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.

Sharpness; pungency of taste. Mortimer.

Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack. "A race of heaven." Shak. Is it [the wine] of the right race Massinqer.

Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich. The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. Pope.

Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

Strong to the taste. "Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they feed." Boyle.

To stretch out the hand. Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste! Milton.

e elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges. Milton.

To enertaas, to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.

To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food. Now I begin to relish thy advice. Shak. He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honors which he enjoys. Atterbury.…

Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.

early; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out. [Obs.] Thou art a man remarked to taste a mischief. Ford. His manacles remark him; there he sits. Milton.

paid 'em, And something over to remember me by. Shak. Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste. Milton.