Scent
[sent] or [sɛnt]
Definition
(noun.) an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced.
(verb.) catch the scent of; get wind of; 'The dog nosed out the drugs'.
Editor: Ozzie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
(v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
(v. i.) To have a smell.
(v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
(n.) That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
(n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
(n.) The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
Typist: Trevor
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Odor, smell, perfume, fragrance, redolence, balminess.
v. a. [1]. Smell, get scent of.[2]. Perfume, fill with odor, give odor to.
Inputed by Alex
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Odor, perfume, {[tmeU]?},[See {[PAOEAKT]?}]
Typist: Naomi
Definition
v.t. to discern by the sense of smell: to perfume: to have some suspicion of.—v.i. to become odoriferous: to smell.—n. a perfume: odour: sense of smell: chase followed by the scent: course of pursuit: scraps of paper strewed on the ground by the pursued in the boys' game of hare and hounds.—ns. Scent′-bag the pouch of an animal which secretes an odoriferous substance; Scent′-bott′le a small bottle for holding perfume; Scent′-box.—adjs. Scent′ed perfumed; Scent′ful highly odoriferous: quick of scent: having a good nose as a dog.—n. Scent′-gland a glandular organ which secretes such substances as musk or castoreum.—adv. Scent′ingly allusively: not directly.—adj. Scent′less having no scent or smell: destructive of scent.—ns. Scent′-or′gan a scent-gland; Scent′-vase a vessel with a pierced cover designed to contain perfumes.
Checker: Uriah
Examples
- As I drew her down into her chair, I was conscious of a scent that I knew, and turning, saw my guardian in the room. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The scent of lavender came out and perfumed the room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There was a scent of eau-de-cologne in the room. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Depend on it, they're on the scent down there; and that if he moved, he'd blow upon the thing at once. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Pompey is the pride of the local draghounds--no very great flier, as his build will show, but a staunch hound on a scent. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A breeze had sprung up, swaying inward the muslin curtains, and bringing a fresh scent of mignonette and petunias from the flower-box on the balcony. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- 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.
- All the uses and scents of the brewery might have evaporated with its last reek of smoke. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He was very sensitive to scents, and quick in understanding them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He whiffed the compound of scents away, as he put down his smoked-out pipe. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Light mists arise, and the dew falls, and all the sweet scents in the garden are heavy in the air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight, and a thousand sights of beauty. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- An uncorked bottle of cologne scents an entire room, the odor of a rose or violet permeates the atmosphere near and far. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Gradually, it subsided to a foot pace, swinging and lumbering upward among the many sweet scents of a summer night. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Captain Lydgate's stupidity was delicately scented, carried itself with style, talked with a good accent, and was closely related to Sir Godwin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was a beautiful letter, highly scented, on a pink paper, and with a light green seal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And Adolph tossed his head, and passed his fingers through his scented hair, with a grace. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And it is plain that in the second instance, as in the first, the church scented rebellion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was not fascinated, only puzzled, by his grinning, his simpering, his scented cambric handkerchief, and his high-heeled lacquered boots. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He wiped his pale face with a large yellow bandanna pocket-handkerchief that was prodigiously scented. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He had a closet in his room, fitted up for the purpose, which smelt of the scented soap like a perfumer's shop. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Checked by Joseph