Obs. [f. TARAGE sb.1] To have a character or quality of some kind, to ‘taste of,’ ‘smell of’ (intr. and trans.). So † Taraged a., having a (specified) quality or character.
c. 1407. Lydg., Reson & Sens., 3378. Hyr tayl ys werray serpentyne, And hir bely eke Capryne,… whan she is hoot, Rammysh taraged as a goot. Ibid. (c. 1430), Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 217. Frut fet fro fer tarageth of the tre. Ibid. (1430–40), Bochas, IV. xv. (MS. Bodl. 263), lf. 243/2. How man and beeste & euery creature Tarageth the stok of his natyuite. Ibid., VIII. xxiv. lf. 402/1. Eche werm sume parti taragethe of his brood.
