n. A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Power of affecting the organs of taste; savor; flavor; taste.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Taste; savor; relish; the power of affecting the organs of taste.
Word Usage
"Xenocles affirmed, that ripe fruit had usually a pleasing, vellicating sapor, and thereby provoked the appetite better than sauces or sweetmeats; for sick men of a vitiated stomach usually recover it by eating fruit."