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tasting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taste \Taste\ (t[=a]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tasting.] [OE. tasten to feel, to taste, OF. taster, F. tater to feel, to try by the touch, to try, to taste, (assumed) LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare to touch sharply, to estimate. See Tax, v. t.]
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To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. [Obs.]
--Chapman.Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.
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To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine.
--John ii. 9.When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse.
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To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
I tasted a little of this honey.
--1 Sam. xiv. 29. -
To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
He . . . should taste death for every man.
--Heb. ii. 9. -
To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
Thou . . . wilt taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
--Milton.
Tasting \Tast"ing\, n. The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small amount of food or drink. 2 The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it. vb. (present participle of taste English)
WordNet
n. a small amount (especially of food or wine)
a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds; "a wine tasting" [syn: taste]
taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most" [syn: savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "tasting".
I swallowed the warmth of a summer day, and then breathed out through my open mouth, tasting apricots and friendship as I held the flask out to him.
I would be there, observing, listening, and tasting, right from the very first time he met Justin Ascham Raleigh during that initial freshers week, until the night of the murder.
One endearing charm is the way these yellow fellows take their atabrine tablets, pills which are so vile tasting that our men even wash them down with GI lemonade.
Lofty as the army was, that pale and sinister beacon rose above it, towering monstrous over all peaks and concernments of earth, and tasting the atomless aether where the cryptical moon and the mad planets reel.
Elliott would never have done such a thing as kiss her after pleasuring her, but with Brochan she felt no shame at tasting herself.
Tasting this she found it to be a delicious sweetmeat and Lord Harcourt explained to her that the sweets were made from the roots of the eringo which was a kind of sea holly, and it was the custom of the inhabitants of Colchester to give boxes of this sweetmeat to members of the royal family who honoured their town by visiting it.
He kissed her eyes, then, slowly, the rest of her face, tasting the faint trace of almond on her freckled cheeks, as he had once fantasized.
If the biochemical change is the consequence simply of the experience of tasting the bead, then the level of fucose incorporation in E should be the same as that in D and F, and higher than in all the water groups A-C.
As soon as I had seen these women in the hands of justice I fled, tasting the sweets of vengeance, which are very great, but yet a sign of unhappiness.
Lydia had shot him that night in Isel Woods had Harris tasting bile in his throat.
He kept it easy, just licking and tasting, moaning a little as Russ touched him.
Her tongue circled her lips, tasting the slight pungency of a sticky moistness around them.
John halted in the act of tasting his mulligatawny soup and blinked once.
He felt the water against his lips and he opened his mouth, tasting Nocturn against his tongue, feeling it coursing down his throat as he swallowed.
For instance the increase could have been due to the taste of the methylanthranilate itself rather than the learned association of pecking and tasting.