SMELL
\smˈɛl], \smˈɛl], \s_m_ˈɛ_l]\
Definitions of SMELL
- 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
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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any property detected by the olfactory system
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the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses"
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the act of perceiving the odor of something
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emit an odor; "The soup smells good"
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smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"
By Princeton University
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any property detected by the olfactory system
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the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses"
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the act of perceiving the odor of something
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emit an odor; "The soup smells good"
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smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To give heed to.
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To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.
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To exercise the sense of smell.
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To exercise sagacity.
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The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
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The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.
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To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; - often with out.
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To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; - often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To give heed to.
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To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.
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To exercise the sense of smell.
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To exercise sagacity.
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The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
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The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.
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To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; - often with out.
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To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; - often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To have an odor; as, this room smells of sulphur; the power of perceiving by the sense of smell: with of; as, smell of this flower.
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That quality of bodies which affects the sense of smell; the sensation felt by means of the nerves in the nose; odor.
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Smelled, smelt.
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Smelling.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. To scent. to perceive by means of the olfactory apparatus. 2. The sense of smell, olfaction. 3. An odor, a scent.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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To affect the nose: to have odor: to use the sense of smell.
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To perceive by the nose:-pa.t. and pa.p. smelled or smelt.
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The quality of bodies which affects the nose: odor: perfume: the sense which perceives this quality.
By Daniel Lyons
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Odor; sense which perceives odor.
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smelled or smelt.
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To have odor; use the sense of smell.
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To perceive by the nose.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The power or faculty of smelling; scent; odour.
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To perceive by the nose. To smell out, to find out by sagacity. To smell a rat, to suspect strongly.
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To affect the nose; to have an odour; to smack; to exercise the sense of smell.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The faculty of perceiving by the organs of the nose certain qualities of bodies; one of the nose certain qualitites of bodies; one of the five senses; scent; odour.
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To preceive by the nerves of the nose; to have a particular odour or scent; to exercise sagacity.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The impression produced on the expanse of the olfactory nerve by inhaled air charged with odorous matter, and therefrom communicated to the olfactory centre of the brain.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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