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To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton.

to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate dish; delicate flavor.

To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken. Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light. Sir I. Newton.

m tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. [Written also doum palm.]

The process of adding some ingredient, as to wine, to give flavor, character, or strength.

The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor. Doubling a cape, promontory, etc. (Naut.), sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.

A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.

g. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.

A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.

A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.

having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds. Smell of sweetest fennel. Milton. A sprig of fennel was in fact the theological smelling bottle of the tender sex. S. G. Goodrich. Azorean, or Sweet, fennel, (Fæniculum dulce). It is a smaller and stouter plan…

aiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.

Want of variety or flavor; dullness; inspidity.

said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.

A frappé mixture or beverage, as a water ice, variously flavored, frozen soft, and served in glasses.

The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long. Swift.

Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.

A strongly alcoholic liquor, flavores with juniper berries; -- made in Holland; Holland gin; Hollands.