Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Tastá-re, v. a.
1. to feel, to handle, to touch. — una piaga, to probe a wound; 2. to sound, sift, pump. — l'animo di qualcheduno, to sound, sift, or pump one. — di moneta, to offer a bribe; 3. to find a way, to find means; 4. to assail, molest; 5. to ridicule; 6. to seek; 7. to keep. — il polso ad uno, to feel a person's pulse; s. m. Tastá-tóre, f. Tastá-tríce; adj. Tastá-nte.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
tastare: to taste, to assay, to feele, to touch, to grope for, to trye. Also to sumble in the darke. Also to search a sore. Also to <*>at a sore or wound. Also to f<*>et an instrument of Musike.