relish

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Flavour or taste

   Flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.

   • Much pleasure we have lost while we abstained / From this delightful fruit, nor known till now / True relish, tasting.
   • The Caſe is the ſame if the Object, proper for exciting any Senſation, has never been apply'd to the Organ. A Laplander or Negro has no Notion of the reliſh of VVine.
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   Followed by for

   Followed by for: one's liking or taste for something; a fondness.

   • I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be judicious.
   • One of the first acts which he was under the necessity of performing must have been painful to a man of so generous a nature, and of so keen a relish for whatever was excellent in arts and letters.
3. 3

   A small amount

   A small amount; a tinge, a trace.

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   1. 4

      Ability to taste or (figurative) enjoy.

   2. 5

      Particular quality

      Particular quality; (countable) an instance of this; a characteristic or quality.

   3. 6

      Enjoyment of flavour or taste

      Enjoyment of flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.

   4. 7

      Enjoyment of something pleasant

      Enjoyment of something pleasant; (countable) an instance of this.

      • Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
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      Appetizing or pleasant flavour or taste

      Appetizing or pleasant flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.

   6. 9

      Pleasant quality

      Pleasant quality; (countable) an instance of this.

      • When liberty is gone, / Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish.
   7. 10

      A savoury dish or course of dishes, especially one accompanying rather than forming the…

      A savoury dish or course of dishes, especially one accompanying rather than forming the main part of a meal; an appetizer, a side dish.

   8. 11

      A condiment or sauce added to food for a spicy or tangy flavour

      A condiment or sauce added to food for a spicy or tangy flavour; specifically, one made with chopped, pickled fruit or vegetables.

   9. 12

      To give (something) (a pleasant) flavour or taste

      To give (something) (a pleasant) flavour or taste; to make appetizing.

      • The olde man, which marrieth a yonge Wyfe, is ſure of this ſowre ſauce, to relliſh his ſwete Imaginations: […]
      • By this the boiling Kettle had prepar'd, / And to the Table ſent, the ſmoaking Lard; / On which the eager Appetite they dine, / A ſav'ry Bit, that ſerv'd to relliſh Wine: […]
   10. 13

       To take delight or pleasure in (someone or oneself, or something).

       • He relishes their time together.
       • I don’t relish the idea of going out tonight.
       • It had another Cataſtrophe or Concluſion, at the firſt Playing: vvhich […] many ſeem'd not to relliſh it; and therefore 'tvvas ſince alter'd: […]
   11. 14

       To eat or taste (drink, food, etc.).

       • [S]he being not vnprouided of ſtrong poyſon at that inſtant, in the Popes outward chamber ſo mingled it, that when his Grand-ſublimity-taſter came to reliſh it, he ſunke downe ſtark dead on the pauement.
       • Friend? Is there any ſuch fooliſh thing i'the vvorld? ha? S'lid I ne're relliſht it yet.
       • Such a dainty Doe, to be taken / By one that knovvs not necke-beefe from a Pheſant, / Nor cannot relliſh Braggat from Ambroſia.
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       To provide (someone, or their appetite, mouth, stomach, etc.) with something appetizing…

       To provide (someone, or their appetite, mouth, stomach, etc.) with something appetizing or tasty.

       • [T]o relliſh the pallat of lickeriſh expectation, and withall to giue an Item how ſudden a ſlabber this ruffianly ſwaggerer (Death) is, […]
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       To appreciate or understand (something).

       • Giue me a huſband that vvill fill mine armes, / Of ſteddie iudgement, quicke and nimble ſenſe: / Fooles reliſh not a Ladies excellence.
       • Novv Vlyſſes, I begin to reliſh thy aduiſe, / And I vvill giue a taſte thereof forthvvith, / To Agamemnon, […]
       • VVhy vvhat neede vve / Commune vvith you of this? […] if you, or ſtupified, / Or ſeeming ſo, in ſkill, cannot, or vvill not / Relliſh truth, like vs: informe your ſelues / VVe neede no more of your aduice: […]
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       To experience (something)

       To experience (something); also (rare), to feel (something).

       • VVe poore commons (vvho taſting vvarre, are made to relliſh nothing but taxes) can do nothing but grieue, to ſee things vnlavvful practiſed, to obtein things impoſſible.
       • Haſt thou (vvhich art but aire) a touch, a feeling / Of their afflictions, and ſhall not my ſelfe, / One of their kinde, that relliſh all as ſharpely, / Paſſion as they, be kindlier mou'd then thou art?
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       To have a particular opinion about (someone or something)

       To have a particular opinion about (someone or something); to receive, to regard.

       • VVhich inſolent ſpeech the Engliſh Biſhops reliſhed ſo harſhly, that they preſently vvith one voyce threatned to accurſe and excommunicate by name the Kings principall vvicked Counſellers; […]
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       To have a tinge or trace of (something).

       • This vvas Theatricall vvit, right Stage-jeſting, and reliſhing a Play-houſe, invented for ſcorne, and laughter; […]
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       To provide (someone) with something delightful or pleasant

       To provide (someone) with something delightful or pleasant; to delight, to gratify, to please.

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       Followed by in

       Followed by in: to take delight or pleasure.

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       To have a particular (specifically, a pleasant) flavour or taste.

       • [G]ood ſalt cannot relyſh in ſo vnſauory a mouth, […]
       • No more the Bleſſings of a Feaſt / Shall reliſh on the Tongue, / The heavy Ear forgets the Taſte / And Pleaſure of a Song.
       • [A] glass of old port or humming ale hardly relishes as it ought without the infusion of some lively topic that had its birth with the day, and perishes before night.
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       To have a particular (specifically, a favourable) characteristic or quality.

       • [N]othing can reliſh in their thoughtes that ſauours of ſvveet youth: […]
       • How ſwéete your howlings relliſh in mine eares?
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       To have a tinge or trace of something.

       • You ſhould not haue beleeu'd me, for vertue cannot ſo e[n]oculat our old ſtock, but vve ſhall reliſh of it, I loued you not.
       • [A] Theory vvhich, hovv much ſoever it may reliſh of VVit and Invention, hath no real Foundation either in Nature or Hiſtory, […]
   22. 25

       To provide delight or pleasure.

   23. 26

       A projecting component.

       • Forject: m[asculine]. A iutting, or leaning out, or ouer; a relliſh, or out-footing.
       • Relliſh, See Projecture [“a jetting over the upright of a Building”].
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       In a wooden frame

       In a wooden frame: the projection or shoulder around, or at the side of, a tenon (“projecting member made to insert into a mortise”), used to strengthen a mortise-and-tenon joint.

       • The Teazle Tennons are made at right Angles to thoſe vvhich are made on the Poſts to go into the Raiſons, and the Reliſh, or Cheats of theſe Teazle Tennons ſtand up vvithin an Inch and a ½ of the top of the Raiſon, […]
       • The morticing is done on the opposite side of the main frame and driven by a crank; the chisels are set transversely or crosswise, in order to leave a relish as in a mortice made by hand; one or more holes are bored to start from.
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       To add one or more relishes (noun etymology 2, noun sense 2) to (a tenon, piece of wood,…

       To add one or more relishes (noun etymology 2, noun sense 2) to (a tenon, piece of wood, etc.).

       • At Fig. 13 I show a housed string between newels. Here the string is double tenoned into the shanks of both newels, also relished between tenons and pinned into the shank.
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       A type of ornamentation comprising one or more trills.

       • O Gad! there's a flat Note! / There's art! hovv ſurprizingly the Key changes! / O lavv [Lord]! there's a double reliſh! I ſvvear, Sir, you have the ſvveeteſt little Finger in England!
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       To sing (a song or tune)

       To sing (a song or tune); specifically, in a manner where there are tremulous changes of tone; to trill, to warble.

       • You mocking Birds (quoth ſhe) your tunes intombe / VVithin your hollovv ſvvelling feathered breaſts, / […] / Raliſh your nimble notes to pleaſing eares, / Diſtres likes dũps vvhẽ [dumps when] time is kept vvith teares.
       • [N]ovv hee's all muſicall. / Vnto the counſell chamber he goes ſinging, / And vvhileſt the king his vvilfull edicts makes, / In vvhich nones tongue is povverful ſaue the kings, / Hee's in a corner, reliſhing ſtrange aires.

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