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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Scent

Scent (scent)
v. t.(?)
Scent
[imp. *** p. p. Scented] p. pr. *** vb. n. Scenting.] [Originally sent, fr. F. sentir to feel, to smell. See Sense.]
  1. To perceive by the olfactory organs] to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.

    Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak.

  2. To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.

    Balm from a silver box distilled around,
    Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground.
    Dryden.


Scent

Scent (scent)
v. i.
Scent
  1. To have a smell.
    [Obs.]

    Thunderbolts . . . do scent strongly of brimstone. Holland.

  2. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

Scent

Scent (scent)
n.
Scent
  1. 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.

    With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial. Prior.

  2. 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.

    He gained the observations of innumerable ages, and traveled upon the same scent into Ethiopia. Sir W. Temple.

  3. The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
    I. Watts.













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