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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.

Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food. Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty. Burke.

Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger. Men must have appetite before they will eat. Buckle.

A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.

The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning. As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment. Bacon.

olution. The king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them. Shak. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it. Addison.

Relishes for the table; dainties; delicacies. "A dealer in delicatessen". G. H. Putnam.

Despondency. The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson.

One who dislikes or disrelishes.

Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. Bacon.

To tincture with something offensive or injurious. Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. Milton.

To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

hat quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.

Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles. My heart had still some foolish fondness for thee. Addison.

Taste; relish.

The sense or pleasure of tasting; relish; gusto. An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite. Jer. Taylor.