se goûter, v.r., to be tasted; to be relished; to like each other. Une sauce doit toujours se —; a sauce ought always to be tasted.
goûter, v.n., to taste, to smell; to lunch; to make a trial of; to approve of. Goûtez de ce vin; try this wine.
goûter, n.m., lunch, light refreshments.
goutte, n.f., drop, small quantity; dram; jot; (arch., pharm.) drop; (med.) gout. — à —; drop by drop. Mère —; unpressed wine. Boire la —; to have a drop (of liquor). Boire une —; to have a nip. Ils se ressemblent comme deux —s d’eau; they are as like as two peas. — sciatique; sciatica, hip-gout. — vague; wandering gout. — militaire; gleet. Accès de —; attack of the gout. Être travaillé de la —; to suffer from gout. — à — on emplit la cuve; many a mickle makes a muckle. Payer la —; to stand a drink. C’est une — d’eau dans la mer; it is a drop in the ocean.
goutte, adv., (l.u.) in the least, at all. Il ne voit —; he does not see at all or a wink. N’y voir —; not to make it out at all. N’entendre —; not to hear at all; not to understand in the least.
gouttelette (gou-tlèt), n.f., small drop.
goutteu-x, -se, adj., gouty.
goutteu-x, n.m., -se, n.f., gouty person.
gouttière, n.f., gutter of a roof, shoot; spout (for rain-water); cornice (of a carriage); fore-edge (of a book); (anat.) groove. pl., (nav.) water-way. — de plomb; leaden spout.
gouvernable, adj., governable.