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Taster (tāstˈẽr), n.
1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
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Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat. Dryden.
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2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
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3. (Zool.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.
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