" Even had the Colonel needed any keeping up to the mark, the office would have been cheerfully undertaken by O'Flynn or by Potts, for whom interest in the gustatory aspect of the occasion was wholly undimmed by the threatened absence of Mac and the "little divvle.

Gustatory (Lat. gusto, gustatum, to taste).

We may have tactual images of things touched; auditory images of things heard; gustatory images of things tasted; olfactory images of things smelled.

Adj. sapid, saporific^; gustable^, gustatory; gustful^; strong, gamy; palatable &c 394.

His food was taken to him in the room he had made his habitation, and it was remarked that, though simple before in his gustatory tastes, he nowpossibly owing to the sedentary life he ledbecame fastidious, insisting on recherché bits.

" This letter adds one more to the list of Lamb's gustatory raptures, and it is remarkable as being his only eulogy of fish.

When we go to market, to barter for our Thanksgiving turkey, we inquire substantially of the spruce vender, glistening in his white apron: "How much gustatory delight does yonder cock contain?"

It has,the white truffle, I mean, not the ambrosia, which I have never tasted,it has a shadow of a shade of mitigated garlic flavor, which demands time and a certain training of the gustatory apparatus, to be fully appreciated.

For some minutes he remained silent, except in the gustatory sense, then he turned upon me and, handing back an empty bottle, said triumphantly, "You must now produce, under Clause 5005 Gerrard, framed this morning at 11-30 o'clock, one pint of old ale and six ounces of bread and cheese for the sustentation of the sub-inspector.

The rival merits of cream, milk and lemon are carefully discussed both from the gustatory and hygienic standpoint, Mr. WELLS pronouncing in favour of lemon, in which idiosyncrasy he resembles Mr. CONRAD and Mr. GALSWORTHY.

Similarly, I have shown that the pleasures of the table, which everybody supposes to be simple, gustatory sensations (matters of taste), are in reality compound odors.

Real enjoyment ought not to be dependent upon feasting and gustatory pleasures.

"This is what is left of them," she said, touching a napkin to her gustatory lips.