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By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.

To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

d, and obtained as a colorless deliquescent crystalline substance, having a bitter saline taste, and not poisonous.

Excessively fine; too nice; over particular; as, superfine distinctions; superfine tastes.

Taste; relish; inclination; liking. [Colloq.] I have no swallow for it. Massinger.

Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.

To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

Any plant of a sweet taste.

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need. Fuller.…

A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.

id obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also tannin, and gallotannic acid.

n tansy (T. vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes.

Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.

basic antimony. It is a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweetish metallic taste, and used in medicine as a sudorific and emetic.

rom tartar as a white crystalline substance, C2H2(OH)2.(CO2H)2, having a strong pure acid taste. It is used in medicine, in dyeing, calico printing, photography, etc., and also as a substitute for lemon juice. Called also dextro-tartaric acid. (b) By extension, any one of the series of isomeric acids (racemic acid, lev…

Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.

The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.

Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.

rs generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.