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hich affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor. I smell sweet savors and I feel soft things. Shak.

In a savory manner.

The quality of being savory.

Having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.

Savory. [Obs.]

Having a savor; savory. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

taste or smell. [Written also savoury.] The chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb. Milton.

aromatic labiate plant (Satireia hortensis), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory. [Written also savoury.]

A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc. Thackeray.

Eliot. To blow upon. (a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the…

A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly. [Obs.] When I am exellent at caudles And cullises . . . you shall be welcome to me. Beau. & Fl.

Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book. The deistical or antichristian scheme. I. Watts.

To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.

Stuffing; forcemeat. [Obs.] They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. Feltham.

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

To cook, as macaroni, in a savory juice or sauce until juice is absorbed and a crisp surface forms.

Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory. A gustable thing, seen or smelt, excites the appetite, and affects the glands and parts of the mouth. Derham.

Tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle.

Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Grew.