Word Meanings - DELIBATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Act of tasting; a slight trial. Berkeley.

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• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• TASTY
  1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• SLIGHT
  1. To overthrow; to demolish. Clarendon. 2. To make even or level. Hexham. 3. To throw heedlessly. The rogue slighted me into the river. Shak.
• TRIALOGUE
  A discourse or colloquy by three persons.
• TASTO
  A key or thing touched to produce a tone. Tasto solo, single touch; -- in old music, a direction denoting that the notes in the bass over or under which it is written should be performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.
• TASTER
  One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food
• SLIGHTY
  Slight. Echard.
• TASTING
  The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.
• TASTELESS
  1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste"less*ly,
• SLIGHTER
  One who slights.
• TRIAL BALANCE
  The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whether the sum of the personal credits increased by the difference between the debit and credit sums in the merchandise and other impersonal accounts equals
• SLIGHTFUL
  See SLEIGHTFUL
• TASTILY
  In a tasty manner.
• SLIGHTLY
  1. In a slight manner. 2. Slightingly; negligently. Shak.
• TRIAL
  The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal,
• SLIGHTING
  Characterized by neglect or disregard.
• TASTABLE
  Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.
• PENTASTICH
  A composition consisting of five verses.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• METASTOMA; METASTOME
  A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.
• DISTASTURE
  Something which excites distaste or disgust. Speed.
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• METASTATIC
  Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.
• HEPTASTICH
  A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
• PANTASTOMATA
  One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms.
• METASTANNATE
  A salt of metastannic acid.
• METASTASIS
  A spiritual change, as during baptism.
• INTASTABLE
  Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. Grew.
• CAPO TASTO
  A sort of bar or movable nut, attached to the finger board of a guitar or other fretted instrument for the purpose of raising uniformly the pitch of all the strings.
• ANTASTHMATIC
  Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. -- n.
• ATTASTE
  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.