Sa"vor (?), n. [OE. savour, savor, savur, OF. savor, savour, F. saveur, fr. L. sapor, fr. sapere to taste, savor. See Sage, a., and cf. Sapid, Insipid, Sapor.] [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.
Shak.
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?
Baxter.
3.
Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
[R.] "Beyond my
savor."
Herbert.
4.
Pleasure; delight; attractiveness.
[Obs.]
She shall no savor have therein but lite.
Chaucer.
Syn. -- Taste; flavor; relish; odor; scent; smell.
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Sa"vor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Savored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Savoring.] [Cf. OF. savorer, F. savourer. See Savor, n.] [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.
Shak.
I have rejected everything that savors of party.
Addison.
3.
To use the sense of taste.
[Obs.]
By sight, hearing, smelling, tasting or savoring, and feeling.
Chaucer.
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Sa"vor, v. t.
1.
To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
2.
To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.
[R.]
That cuts us off from hope, and savors only
Rancor and pride, impatience and despite.
Milton.
3.
To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.
[R.]
Shak.
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