seasoneth

Verb

season (third-person singular simple present seasons, present participle seasoning, simple past and past participle seasoned)

1. (transitive) To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
   • to season oneself to a climate
2. (broadly, transitive) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
   • The timber needs to be seasoned.

   Synonyms:

   desiccate, dehydrate, exiccate, fordry

3. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

   Synonyms:

   wont, age

4. (intransitive) 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.

   Synonyms:

   desiccate, dry out, dry up, fordry, shrivel up

5. (transitive) To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.

   Synonyms:

   admix

6. (obsolete) To impregnate (literally or figuratively).
   • When the male hath once ſeaſoned the female, he neuer after toucheth her.1589, Richard Hakluyt, chapter 22, in The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, part 1, London, page 93

   Synonyms:

   inseminate, fertilize, seed

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