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English Dictionary: taster by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
taster
n
  1. someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: taster, taste tester, taste-tester, sampler]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Taster \Tast"er\, n.
      1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or
            drink to ascertain its quality.
  
                     Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat. --Dryden.
  
      2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram
            cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) 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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