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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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... wallow—and I hate a horse or steer! But we stand the kings of herders—he for There and I for Here; Though he rides with Death behind him when he rounds the wild stampede, I will chop the jamming king-log and I'll match him deed for deed; And for me the greenwood savor, and the lash across my face Of the spitting spume that belches from the back-wash of the race; The glory of the tumult where the tumbling torrent rolls, With half a hundred drivers riding through with lunging poles; ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) • Various

... including Pershal and Miss Pray, laughed inordinately, gazing out into the sweet Basin night; and indeed I was even ready to avow with my life that it was a joke of the extremest savor. Even had all Uncle Coffin's sins been known, he would have ...

— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene

... sense which makes us acquainted with the savor of substances. When fluids are taken into the mouth, the papillae dilate and erect themselves, and the particular impression excited is transmitted to the brain through filaments of the gustatory nerve. This sense is closely connected with that of smell. The pleasures derived ...

— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter

... snobs that lived hundreds of years ago; the species has not materially changed. No sooner did learning become general through the use of the printing press, and become accessible to the man in moderate circumstances than it lost its savor for the rich, and many a noble boasted that he was unable to read, write, or spell. Learning suddenly became a vulgar accomplishment, a thing to be spurned, ridiculed, ...

— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett

... new soil of America. There is a richness and sweetness gleaming through the brief records of these men in their journals, which shows how the new land was seen through a fond and tender medium, half poetic; and its new products lend a savor to them of somewhat ...

— Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and The First Christmas - of New England • Harriet Beecher Stowe

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