Word Meanings - INODOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless. -- In*o"dor*ous*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to INODOROUS)

• SMELLING
  1. The act of one who smells. 2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.
• EMITTENT
  Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.
• ODORLESS
  Free from odor.
• SMELL
  smelen, smölen, schmelen, to smoke, to reek, D. smeulen to smolder, 1. To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to
• SMELL-LESS
  Destitute of smell; having no odor. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint. Beau & Fl.
• SMELL-FEAST
  1. One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. The epicure and the smell-feast. South. 2. A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.
• SMELLER
  1. One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell. 2. The nose.
• SCENTLESS
  Having no scent. The scentless and the scented rose. Cowper.
• SMELLING SALTS
  An aromatic preparation of carbonate of ammonia and, often, some scent, to avoid or relieve faintness, headache, or the like.
• REMITTEE
  One to whom a remittance is sent.
• REMITTAL
  A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.
• UNREMITTING
  Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions. Cowper. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ly, adv. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ness, n.
• REMITTITUR
  A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages. A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a superior to an inferior court. Wharton.
• REMITTENT
  Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions. Remittent fever , a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.
• REMITTANCE
  1. The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation. 2. The sum or thing remitted. Addison.
• REMITTOR
  One who makes a remittance; a remitter.
• IRREMITTABLE
  Not capable of being remitted; irremissible. Holinshed.
• REMITTER
  The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into