Word Meanings - ODOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume. Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around. Spenser. To be in bad odor, to be out of favor, or in bad repute. (more info) odor; akin to olere to
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Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume. Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around. Spenser. To be in bad odor, to be out of favor, or in bad repute. (more info) odor; akin to olere to smell, Gr. Olfactory, Osmium, Ozone,
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- SCENTFUL
1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne. - SAVORINESS
The quality of being savory. - RELISHABLE
Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying. - AROMATIZE
To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon. - 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. - SAVOROUS
Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R. - FLAVORED
Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine. - REJECTER
One who rejects. - AROMA
1. The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee. 2. Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius. - PERFUMER
1. One who, oe that which, perfumes. 2. One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes. - AROMATIZATION
The act of impregnating or secting with aroma. - INCENSEMENT
Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak. - FLAVORLESS
Without flavor; tasteless. - REJECT
re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among - SMACK
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade. - INCENSER
One who instigates or incites. - INCENSE
1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman. 2. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden. - SCENTINGLY
By scent. Fuller. - TASTE
by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish - REJECTANEOUS
Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow. - FLORESCENT
Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See - INTUMESCENT
Swelling up; expanding. - REVALESCENT
Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be - ADOLESCENT
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See - CONCUPISCENTIOUS
Concupiscent. - LAPIDESCENT
Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies. - CONVALESCENTLY
In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor. - DELITESCENT
Lying hid; concealed. - INEFFERVESCENT
Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent. - DEPASCENT
Feeding. - SUPERCRESCENT
Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson. - ASCENT
1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or - RUFESCENT
Reddish; tinged with red. - COGNOSCENTE
A conoisseur. Mason. - CRESCENT
The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. (more info) sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr. - TABESCENT
Withering, or wasting away.