n.
- great enjoyment.
▸pleasurable anticipation.
- a piquant sauce or pickle eaten with plain food to add flavour.
- archaic an appetizing flavour.
▸a distinctive taste or tinge.
v.
- enjoy greatly.
▸anticipate with pleasure.
- archaic make pleasant to the taste.
Derivative
Etymology
ME (orig. in the sense ‘odour, taste’): alt. of obs. reles, from OFr. reles ‘remainder’, from relaisser ‘to release’.