- One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or
drink to ascertain its quality. - That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram
cup, a cheese taster, or the like. - 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.