Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REL'ISH, n.

1. Taste; or rather, a pleasing taste; that sensation of the organs which is experienced when we take food or drink of an agreeable flavor. Different persons have different relishes. Relish is often natural, and often the effect of habit.
2. Liking; delight; appetite. We have such a relish for faction, as to have lost that of wit. – Addison.
3. Sense; the faculty of perceiving excellence; taste; as, a relish for fine writing, or a relish of fine writing. Addison uses both of and for after relish.
4. That which gives pleasure; the power of pleasing. When liberty is gone, / Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. – Addison.
5. Cast; manners. It preserves some relish of old writing. – Pope.
6. Taste; a small quantity just perceptible. Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, / I have no relish of them. – Shak.