sapour

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative spelling of sapor.

   “Yet ſome fountains are impaired; for paſſing through the bowels of the earth, they require aliene faculties, for they mutuate their odour or ſapour from the places through which they permeate.”

   “Thus Heat and Cold, and other Qualities / Affect the Touch, whil’ſt Colours ſtrike the Eyes, / Odours the Smell, Sapours the Taſt, but none / Invades anothers right, uſurps his Throne, / All live at peace, contented with their own.”

   “I now pass on to consider, in the second place, the nature of the various kinds of sapours and odours which we find in our food.”