Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SEA-SON, v.t. [Fr. assaisonner; Sp. and Port. sazonar.]

1. To render palatable, or to give a higher relish to, by the addition or mixture of another substance more pungent or pleasant; as, to season meat with salt; to season any thing with spices. Lev. ii.
2. To render more agreeable, pleasant, or delightful; to give a relish or zest to by something that excites, animates, or exhilarates. You season still with sports your serious hours. – Dryden. The proper use of wit is to season conversation. – Tillotson.
3. To render more agreeable, or less rigorous and severe; to temper; to moderate; to qualify by admixture. When mercy seasons justice. – Shak.
4. To imbue; to tinge or taint. Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. – Taylor.
5. To fit for any use by time or habit; to mature; to prepare. Who in want a hollow friend doth try, / Directly seasons him an enemy. – Shak.
6. To prepare for use, by drying or hardening; to take out or suffer to escape the natural juices; as, to season timber.
7. To prepare or mature for a climate; to accustom to and enable to endure; as, to season the body to a particular climate. Long residence in the West Indies, or a fever, may season strangers.