Word Meanings - SCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: SCENT
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCENT)
- Odor
- Smell
- scent
- fragrance
- perfume
- redolence
- effluvium
- fume
- trail
- nidor
- Perfume
- aroma
- smell
- incense
- Redolence
- savor
- odor
- Vestige
- Trace
- mark
- indication
- sign
- token
- remnant
- record
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCENT)
Related words: (words related to SCENT)
- 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. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - PERFUME
1. The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet- smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma. No rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field. Pope. 2. A substance that emits an agreeable odor. And thou shalt make - SAVORINESS
The quality of being savory. - 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. - NIDOROSE
Nidorous. Arbuthnot. - TOKENLESS
Without a token. - 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. - SAVORLY
In a savory manner. Barrow. - INCENSEMENT
Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak. - 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 - TRAIL
1. To be drawn out in length; to follow after. When his brother saw the red blood trail. Spenser. 2. To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb. - INCENSER
One who instigates or incites. - RECORDATION
Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. Shak. - TRAILER
One who, or that which, trails. - SCENTINGLY
By scent. Fuller. - FLORESCENT
Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See - INTUMESCENT
Swelling up; expanding. - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - REVALESCENT
Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be - COINDICATION
One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. - 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. - LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair. - 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.