Word Meanings - CONDIMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning. As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• PEPPERBRAND
  See BUNT
• APPETIZER
  Something which creates or whets an appetite.
• PEPPERCORN
  1. A dried berry of the black pepper . 2. Anything insignificant; a particle.
• RADISH
  The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant ; also, the whole plant. Radish fly , a small two-winged fly whose larvæ burrow in radishes. It resembles the onion fly. -- Rat-tailed radish , an herb having a long, slender pod,
• SEASONER
  One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.
• SEASONAL
  Of or pertaining to the seasons. Seasonal dimorphism , the condition of having two distinct varieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.
• PEPPERING
  Hot; pungent; peppery. Swift.
• TASTE
  by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• PEPPERMINT
  An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. 2. A volatile oil distilled from the fresh herb; also, a well-known essence or spirit obtained from it. 3. A lozenge of sugar flavored
• GRATIFY
  1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains
• PEPPERER
  A grocer; -- formerly so called because he sold pepper.
• 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
• SEASONLESS
  Without succession of the seasons.
• RELISH
  1. To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food. Now I begin to relish thy advice. Shak. He knows how
• APPETIZE
  To make hungry; to whet the appetite of. Sir W. Scott.
• SEASONAGE
  A seasoning. outh.
• WHITE MUSTARD
  A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• ATTASTE
  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
• DISTASTEFUL
  1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
• FORETASTE
  A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
• BIRD PEPPER
  A species of capsicum , whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.
• ALETASTER
  See ALECONNER
• CATASTERISM
  A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.