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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.

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

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

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.

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

or one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time. At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes. Milton.

Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.

To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably. A savory bit that served to relish wine. Dryden.

In a savory manner.

The quality of being savory.

Savory. [Obs.]

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

Having a taste or flavorl savory; sapid. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A smell; an odor. [Obs.] Clouds of savory stench involve the sky. Dryden.