seasoning

1. Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
2. (by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
3. A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
4. 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.”

5. In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.

1. To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure.

   to season oneself to a climate

2. (by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.

   The timber needs to be seasoned.

3. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
4. 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.

5. To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
6. To copulate with; to impregnate.

verb

To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.