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Tasting

noun

A small amount (especially of food or wine).

A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds. Synonym: taste.

Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality. Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring.

Taste

verb

(past & past part. tasted; pres. part. tasting)

Have flavor; taste of something. Synonyms: savor, savour.

Perceive by the sense of taste.

Take a sample of. Synonyms: sample, try, try out. "Sample the regional dishes"

Have a distinctive or characteristic taste. Synonym: smack.

Distinguish flavors.

Experience briefly.

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... even so were his disciples. The innate good sense of this speech increased his reputation. About this time, too, he would sometimes prophesy, and undergo long periods of motionless self-abstraction. At the end of one of these latter, after tasting no food or drink for three and a half hours, he gave utterance to what was afterwards known as the First Revelation. It ran to this effect: "The Man-God is the Man-God, and not the God-Man." Asked how he arrived at so stupendous an aphorism, he answered that it just came to him. There were troubles ...

— South Wind • Norman Douglas

... a moment to declare, that, on the contrary, I have always commended it myself, and heard it commended by every one else; and few things would give me more concern than to be thought incapable of tasting, or unwilling to testify my ...

— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell

... my men," cried Stango, "exceedingly scurvily; the best and strongest stuff in the cellar has been kept back from us. It's excellent—I've been tasting it first, lest you should all be poisoned; and there's more where this come from—oceans ...

— Stories by English Authors: England • Various

... three more flies came down together, and lit in a row, one behind another. They were different from the first, and he decided to try again. He chose the foremost of the three, and found it quite as ill-tasting as the other had been; but this time he didn't spit it out, for the stinger was a little too quick for him, and before he could let go it was fast in his lip. For the next few minutes he tore around the pool ...

— Forest Neighbors - Life Stories of Wild Animals • William Davenport Hulbert

... to the highest measure of possibility. Error, ignorance and sin must be met and vanquished by light and love. The eyes of the angels are upon us. The eye of God is upon us. Shall we fetter and paralyze our intellectual capabilities for the sake of enjoying the paltry pleasure of tasting the most loathsome and destructive weed in the whole vegetable ...

— The Gospel Day • Charles Ebert Orr

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