Taste

(tāst.) (Physiol.) One of the five senses; a peculiar sensation excited by means of the nervous pa pillæ of the tongue.-T. is also used, in a figurative sense, for the judgment and discernment of the mind, regarding what is grand and beautiful both in art and nature. T. is, in some degree, the fruit of observation and reflection-not wholly the gift of nature nor wholly the effect of art. [s. 879]