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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

sapidus

, fr.

sapere

to taste: cf. F.

sapide

. See

Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor.

Camels, to make the water

sapid

, do raise the mud with their feet.

Sir T. Browne.

Adj.

[L. sapidus, from sapio, to taste.]

Tasteful; tastable; having the power of affecting the organs of taste; as sapid water.