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noun

Savor n. (Written also savour)

1.

That property of a thing which 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."

2.

Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like. "Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savor of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?"

3.

Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. (R.) "Beyond my savor."

4.

Pleasure; delight; attractiveness. (Obs.) "She shall no savor have therein but lite."

Synonyms: Taste; flavor; relish; odor; scent; smell.

verb

Savor v. t.

1.

To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note. (Obs.)

2.

To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of. (R.) "That cuts us off from hope, and savors only Rancor and pride, impatience and despite."

3.

To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor. (R.)

Savor v. i. (past & past part. savored; pres. part. savoring) (Written also savour)

1.

To have a particular smell or taste; with of.

2.

To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; with of. "This savors not much of distraction." "I have rejected everything that savors of party."

3.

To use the sense of taste. (Obs.) "By sight, hearing, smelling, tasting or savoring, and feeling."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... such bright fires, never tasted such delicious meat and spicy wine, as during that period of his life, while vengeance had a still sweeter savor than all the rest. When the castle fell, and its noble mistress begged for mercy, he enjoyed a foretaste of the promised paradise. Satan has also his Eden of fiery roses, but they do not last long, and when they wither, put forth sharp thorns. The peasants ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... of a fairer manhood. Weakness was to be no longer the tyrant's opportunity, but the victim's claim; labor should never henceforth be degraded as a curse, but honored as that salt of the earth which keeps life sweet, and gives its savor to duty. To be of good family should mean being a child of the one Father of us all; and good birth, the being born into God's world, and not into a fool's paradise of man's invention. But even had this moral leaven been wanting, had the popular impulse been merely ...

— The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V - Political Essays • James Russell Lowell

... rapidity and the excitement of the action. But here is another charm, the most welcome of all in a society passionately fond of Parny; according to an expression of the Comte d'Artois, which I dare not quote, this appeals to the senses, the arousing of which constitutes the spiciness and savor of the piece. The fruit that hangs ripening and savory on the branch never falls but always seems on the point of falling; all hands are extended to catch it, its voluptuousness somewhat veiled but so much the ...

— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) - The Ancient Regime • Hippolyte A. Taine

... used for this dish are the tunny, the umber or grayling, the sword fish and any piece of fish of large size and good savor. A pound may be sufficient for four or ...

— The Italian Cook Book - The Art of Eating Well • Maria Gentile

... of his own position is more able to maintain it; he knows the price of the efforts which he had to make in order to construct it, and, armed with common sense, he is as able to defend his treasure as to enjoy the sweet savor of a thing which he has desired, longed for, and won by the force of his will and judgment, placed at the service of ...

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