Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FLA'VOR, n. [Qu. Fr. flairer, to smell; W. fleiriaw.]

The quality of a substance which affects the taste or smell, in any manner. We say, the wine has a fine flavor, or a disagreeable flavor; the fruit has a bad flavor; a rose has a sweet flavor. The word then signifies the quality which is tasted or smelt; taste, odor, fragrance, smell.