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Taster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who tastes.

2. One who first tastes food or liquor.

3. Thy tutor be thy taster e'er thou eat.

4. A dram cup.

Taster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.

2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.

3. 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.