Perfume
['pɜːfjuːm] or [pɚ'fjum]
Definition
(noun.) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor.
(verb.) apply perfume to; 'She perfumes herself every day'.
(verb.) fill or impregnate with an odor; 'orange blossoms perfumed the air in the garden'.
Typist: Randall--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
(v.) The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.
(v.) A substance that emits an agreeable odor.
Checker: Newman
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Fragrance, balminess, aroma, redolence, incense, pleasing scent, grateful odor, sweetness of smell.[2]. Sweet-smelling substance.
v. a. Scent, fill, impregnate or imbue with grateful odor.
Typist: Stanley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Odor, scent, fragrance, redolence, aroma, smell, incense
ANT:Fetor, stench, stink
Edited by Angus
Definition
n. sweet-smelling smoke: sweet scent: anything which yields a sweet odour.—v.t. (pėr-fūm′) to fill with a pleasant odour: to scent.—adj. Perfū′matory yielding perfume.—ns. Per′fume-foun′tain a small appliance for throwing a jet or spray of perfume; Perfū′mer one who or that which perfumes: one who makes or sells perfumes; Perfū′mery perfumes in general: the art of preparing perfumes; Per′fume-set a set of articles for the toilet-table.—adj. Per′fūmy.
Checker: Trent
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of inhaling perfume, is an augury of happy incidents. For you to perfume your garments and person, denotes that you will seek and obtain adulation. Being oppressed by it to intoxication, denotes that excesses in joy will impair your mental qualities. To spill perfume, denotes that you will lose something which affords you pleasure. To break a bottle of perfume, foretells that your most cherished wishes and desires will end disastrously, even while they promise a happy culmination. To dream that you are distilling perfume, denotes that your employments and associations will be of the pleasantest character. For a young woman to dream of perfuming her bath, foretells ecstatic happenings. If she receives it as a gift from a man, she will experience fascinating, but dangerous pleasures.
Typist: Virginia
Examples
- Three miles on he came to a spot where a soft perfume was wafted across his path, and he stood still for a moment to inhale the familiar scent. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The earth breathes fragrant breaths to-night, And the perfume blows from the land. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This man would not have been tolerated at Melton, but that Brummell once said he used good perfume. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Miss Keeldar gathered handfuls of the profusely blooming flowers whose perfume filled the enclosure. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mix, and perfume with cologne, lavender, or any desired odor. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A few drops of water or perfume thrown on the floor of a room are sufficient to give a very decided indication on the galvanometer in circuit with the instrument. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This Parisienne was always in debt; her salary being anticipated, not only in dress, but in perfumes, cosmetics, confectionery, and condiments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Can you not smell the perfumes blowing from the land? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There was too much reason to think that he and Eustacia both were for ever beyond the reach of stimulating perfumes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- No perfumes, Brummell used to say, but very fine linen, plenty of it, and country washing. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And, after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable, than when they used perfumes, under which I immediately swooned away. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The scent of lavender came out and perfumed the room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of the old gentleman, unshorn and perfumed with tobacco, might well do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He laughed more, as he kissed her delicate, finely perfumed hair. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You suffer him to rest his head on your perfumed lap; you let him couch on the borders of your satin raiment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It may be perfumed with oil of sassafras or any other perfume desired, stirring it in when cool. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Editor: Rosanne