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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. 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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"Savour" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Fall to, and note especially the excellence of this bread and its whiteness!" But still my brother saw nothing. Then said he to himself, "This man is fond of poking fun at people;" and replied, "O my lord, in all my days I never knew aught more winsome than its whiteness or sweeter than its savour." The Barmecide said, "This bread was baked by a hand maid of mine whom I bought for five hundred dinars." Then he called out, "Ho boy, bring in the meat pudding[FN687] for our first dish, and let there be plenty of fat in ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... folded note I catch the savour Of climes that make the Motherland so fair, Although I never knew the blessed favour That surely lies in breathing ...
— Flint and Feather • E. Pauline Johnson

... glass of old Pomard tingling to my wet feet, indescribable first olive culled from the hors d'oeuvre—I suppose, when I come to lie dying, and the lamp begins to grow dim, I shall still recall your savour. Over the rest of that meal, and the rest of the evening, clouds lie thick; clouds perhaps of Burgundy; perhaps, more properly, of famine ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... great knees and feet Of some pale Titan-woman like a lover, Such as thy vision here solicited, Under the shadow of her fair vast head, The deep division of prodigious breasts, The solemn slope of mighty limbs asleep, The weight of awful tresses that still keep The savour and shade of old-world pine-forests Where ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... them, "a land flowing with milk and honey... the glory of all lands," than when they beheld "every high hill and every thick tree... they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering, there also they made their sweet savour, and they poured out there their drink offerings." Not contented with profaning their altars by impious ceremonies and offerings, they further bowed the knee to idols, thinking in their hearts, "We will be as the nations, as the families of the ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) • G. Maspero


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