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- English Word Smell Definition 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 obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.
- English Word Smell Definition To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.
- English Word Smell Definition To give heed to.
- English Word Smell Definition To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.
- English Word Smell Definition To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.
- English Word Smell Definition To exercise the sense of smell.
- English Word Smell Definition To exercise sagacity.
- English Word Smell Definition The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
- English Word Smell Definition The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.
- English Word Smell-feast Definition One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.
- English Word Smell-feast Definition A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.
- English Word Smell-less Definition Destitute of smell; having no odor.
- English Word Smelled Definition of Smell
- English Word Smeller Definition One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell.
- English Word Smeller Definition The nose.
- English Word Smelling Definition of Smell
- English Word Smelling Definition The act of one who smells.
- English Word Smelling Definition The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell.
- English Word Smelt Definition of Smell
- English Word Smelt Definition imp. & p. p. of Smell.
- English Word Smelt Definition Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste.
- English Word Smelt Definition A gull; a simpleton.
- English Word Smelt Definition To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.
- English Word Smelted Definition of Smelt
- English Word Smelter Definition One who, or that which, smelts.
- English Word Smeltery Definition A house or place for smelting.
- English Word Smeltie Definition A fish, the bib.
- English Word Smelting Definition of Smelt
- English Word Smelting Definition a. & n. from Smelt.
- English Word Smerk Definition See Smirk.