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A foretaste. Antepasts of joy and comforts. Jer. Taylor.

To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life.

Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey.

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

ant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon spices.

To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon.

To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. They will not arraign you for want of knowledge. Dryden. It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor.

One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.

One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

tists; made in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill. -- Ar*tis"tic*al*ly, adv.

Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.

g; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

Sourness and harshness to the taste. [Obs.] Horsley.

A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. Shak.

, or balsam of Mecca. This has a yellowish or greenish color, a warm, bitterish, aromatic taste, and a fragrant smell. It is valued as an unguent and cosmetic by the Turks. The fragrant herb Dracocephalum Canariense is familiarly called balm of Gilead, and so are the American trees, Populus balsamifera, variety candica…

eating and drinking; to feast. Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, I would not taste thy treasonous offer. Milton.

Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.[Obs.] Barbarous gold. Dryden.

In bad taste; grotesque; odd.