Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
(by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
An alcoholic intoxication.
Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”
In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure.
to season oneself to a climate
(by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
The timber needs to be seasoned.
To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
The wood has seasoned in the sun.
To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
To copulate with; to impregnate.
To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.