PERFUME
\pˈɜːfjuːm], \pˈɜːfjuːm], \p_ˈɜː_f_j_uː_m]\
Definitions of PERFUME
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor
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fill or impregnate with an odor; "orange blossoms prerfumed the air in the garden"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
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The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.
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A substance that emits an agreeable odor.
By Oddity Software
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To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
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The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.
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A substance that emits an agreeable odor.
By Noah Webster.
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A substance, extract, or preparation for diffusing or imparting an agreeable or attractive smell, especially a fluid containing fragrant natural oils extracted from flowers, woods, etc., or similar synthetic oils. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A pleasing scent or odor, as of flowers; fragrance; a fragrant mixture prepared to give out a pleasing odor.
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Perfumer.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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Odorous smoke: sweet-smelling scent: anything which yields a sweet odor.
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To fill with a pleasant odor: to scent.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A substance which emits a sweet odour; sweet odour emitted.
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To scent; to fill or impregnate with a grateful odour.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.