Taster

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.

II. Taster ·noun That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.

III. Taster ·noun One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. ·see Siphonophora.