Flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.
Much pleasure we have lost while we abstained / From this delightful fruit, nor known till now / True relish, tasting.
Followed by for: one's liking or taste for something; a fondness.
I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be judicious.
In a wooden frame: the projection or shoulder around, or at the side of, a tenon (“projecting member made to insert into a mortise”), used to strengthen a mortise-and-tenon joint.
The noun is a variant of release (“(obsolete) odour, scent”), from Middle English reles, relese (“odour, scent; taste; efficacy, power”), probably from Anglo-Norman reles, relais, or Old French reles,...
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He relishes their time together.
To add one or more relishes (noun etymology 2, sense 1) to (a tenon, piece of wood, etc.).