1. (n.) The roof of the mouth; the organ for tasting\.

2. (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.

3. (n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.

4. (n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

5. (v. t.) To perceive by the taste.

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