Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for REL'ISH
REL'ISH, v.i.
- To have a pleasing taste. The greatest dainties do not always relish.
- To give pleasure. Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits. – Shak.
- To have a flavor. A theory which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature. – Woodward.
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