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Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.
Next Worda.
Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. →
a.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4, related to fumaric acid, and obtained from citraconic acid as an oily substance having a bittersweet taste; -- so called from its tendency to form its anhydride. →
A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze. →
v. i.
To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle. →