Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
taste .
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- noun Obsolete spelling of
taste .
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Examples
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Phlegme of mixt Bodies must be reputed water, because so weak a tast needs but a very small proportion of Salt to impart it; It may be reply'd, that for ought appears, common Salt and divers other bodies, though they be distill'd never so dry, and in never so close Vessels, will yield each of them pretty store of a Liquor, wherein though (as I lately noted) Saline Corpuscles abound, Yet there is besides a large proportion of Phlegme, as may easily be discovered by coagulating the
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This suggests that an older spelling may have been "tast" since the word comes into English from Old French "tast."
That "mortal tast" Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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Speaking of aging one of your commentators noted that Parker is now 60, the age when the sense of smell and thus tast starts to fade.
Tasting Bordeaux 2005 blind with Robert Parker | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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He fries them and says they tast like scrambled chicken eggs, but I have never been around when eats them.
Fried Carp, Anyone? 2009
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If you try the meat of deer, the doe by far tast better if young.
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Hmmmmm .... these frozen treats would tast so much better if the ice cream shop were controlled by some of Barry's Marxist buddies.
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He fries them and says they tast like scrambled chicken eggs, but I have never been around when eats them.
Fried Carp, Anyone? 2009
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Yes | No | Report from western nyer wrote 22 weeks 14 hours ago my great grandpa used to use the wire hanger trick but is the meat really worth killing it? it doesnt tast very good and you can probably buy it cheaper and easier off line
Has anyone ever field dressed a snapping turtle? How do you do it and prepare the meat? 2009
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My first tast of science fiction was Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" when I was in my teens - circa 1960.
MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Science Fiction? 2009
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Yes | No | Report from western nyer wrote 22 weeks 14 hours ago my great grandpa used to use the wire hanger trick but is the meat really worth killing it? it doesnt tast very good and you can probably buy it cheaper and easier off line
Has anyone ever field dressed a snapping turtle? How do you do it and prepare the meat? 2009
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