For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
Dryden.
4. To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to
taste of nature's bounty. Waller.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Shak.
Taste, n. 1. The act of tasting; gustation.
2. A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to
the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means
of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter
taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.
3. (Physiol.) The one of the five senses by which certain properties of
bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact
with the organs of taste.
Taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter with the terminal
organs (connected with branches of the glossopharyngeal and other
nerves) in the papillæ on the surface of the tongue. The base of the
tongue is considered most sensitive to bitter substances, the point to
sweet and acid substances.
4. Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; — formerly with of, now with
for; as, he had no taste for study.