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scent

sɛnt
WordNet
Scented bottle.
Scented bottle.
  1. (v) scent
    apply perfume to "She perfumes herself every day"
  2. (v) scent
    catch the scent of; get wind of "The dog nosed out the drugs"
  3. (v) scent
    cause to smell or be smelly
  4. (n) scent
    any property detected by the olfactory system
  5. (n) scent
    an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced
  6. (n) scent
    a distinctive odor that is pleasant
Illustrations
A boy on roller skates is holding a shelf with both hands on which is scented food. A dog jumps into the air at his feet and looks at the food.
A boy on roller skates is holding a shelf with both hands on which is scented food. A dog jumps into the air at his feet and looks at the food.
Openwork porcelain scent ball with silk brush, painted on biscuit in red and turquoise and on the glaze blue, red, pink, green and black. The wall of the sphere with lacework with three medallions; here a boy playing on a terrace; the underside of the bulb with 'crackled ice' with prunus blossom. The brush is attached to a loose lid with a cord. Email sur biscuit with famille rose colors.
Openwork porcelain scent ball with silk brush, painted on biscuit in red and turquoise and on the glaze blue, red, pink, green and black. The wall of the sphere with lacework with three medallions; here a boy playing on a terrace; the underside of the bulb with 'crackled ice' with prunus blossom. The brush is attached to a loose lid with a cord. Email sur biscuit with famille rose colors.
Fragrance ball in bag. Filigree with a rose cut diamond in pear shape. With amber scent ball. Also two strips of lace in the bag.
Fragrance ball in bag. Filigree with a rose cut diamond in pear shape. With amber scent ball. Also two strips of lace in the bag.
Openwork porcelain scent ball, painted on biscuit in blue, pink, green, yellow and aubergine. The walls with lacework with six medallions; here flower sprays or flower sprays near a rock (peony, chrysanthemum), around the medallions a band with flower and lotus tendrils. Some cracks in the ball. Email sur biscuit with famille rose colors.
Openwork porcelain scent ball, painted on biscuit in blue, pink, green, yellow and aubergine. The walls with lacework with six medallions; here flower sprays or flower sprays near a rock (peony, chrysanthemum), around the medallions a band with flower and lotus tendrils. Some cracks in the ball. Email sur biscuit with famille rose colors.
Bottle-shaped porcelain vase with pear-shaped belly and long straight neck, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, black and gold. The bottle is covered with bleu poudré with three lobed spaces cut out on the wall, one filled with antiques and two with flower sprays; around the base of the neck a decorative band with a meander and ruyi motif; around the edge a band with a meander motif; the edge covered with gold. Bleu poudré with famille verte.
Bottle-shaped porcelain vase with pear-shaped belly and long straight neck, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, black and gold. The bottle is covered with bleu poudré with three lobed spaces cut out on the wall, one filled with antiques and two with flower sprays; around the base of the neck a decorative band with a meander and ruyi motif; around the edge a band with a meander motif; the edge covered with gold. Bleu poudré with famille verte.
Silk brush of openwork porcelain scent ball.
Silk brush of scent ball
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races
  1. Scent
    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."
  2. Scent
    To have a smell. "Thunderbolts . . . do scent strongly of brimstone."
  3. Scent
    To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
  4. Scent
    To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. "Methinks I scent the morning air."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
There are five million scent receptors located in a human beings nose
  1. scent
    To perceive or discern by the smell; smell: as, to scent game.
  2. scent
    To perceive in any way; especially, to have a faint inkling or suspicion of.
  3. scent
    To fill with smell, odor, or effluvium; cause to smell; make fragrant or stinking; perfume.
  4. scent
    To be or become scented; have odor; be odoriferous; smell.
  5. scent
    To hunt or pursue by scent.
  6. (n) scent
    An effluvium from any body capable of affecting the olfactory sense and being perceived as a smell; anything that can be smelled; odor; smell; fragrance or perfume.
  7. (n) scent
    A fragrant liquid distilled from flowers, etc., used to perfume the handkerchief and other articles of dress; a perfume.
  8. (n) scent
    The sense of smell; the faculty of olfaction; smell: as, a hound of nice scent.
  9. (n) scent
    The odoriferous trace of an animal's presence; the effluvium left by an animal in passing, by means of which it may be tracked or trailed by smell; hence, the track of such an animal; the course of its pursuit: as, to lose or recover the scent, as dogs: often used figuratively of any trace by which pursuit or inquiry of any kind can be guided.
  10. (n) scent
    Scraps of paper strewed on the ground by the pursued in the boys' game of hare and hounds, or by the “fox” in a paper-hunt, to enable the pursuers to track them or him.
  11. (n) scent
    Inkling; faint knowledge or suspicion.
  12. (n) scent
    Specilically, the supposed faculty of discerning odors in some way distinct from ordinary physical means.
  13. (n) scent
    = Syn.1. Odor, Fragrance, etc. See smell.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
Pig vomit is used in perfume and cologne to hold the scent in
  1. (v.t) Scent
    sent to discern by the sense of smell: to perfume: to have some suspicion of
  2. (v.i) Scent
    to become odoriferous: to smell
  3. (n) Scent
    a perfume: odour: sense of smell: chase followed by the scent: course of pursuit: scraps of paper strewed on the ground by the pursued in the boys' game of hare and hounds
Quotations
W. H. Auden
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
W. H. Auden
Idioms

Scent blood - If you can scent blood, you feel that a rival is having difficulties and you are going to beat them.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Originally sent, fr. F. sentir, to feel, to smell. See Sense

Usage in the news

Strange Scent Haunts NBC Studio as Roker Fetes Mystery Novel . observer.com

The walls were a soothing blue with tan acents, potpourri filled the bathrooms with flower scent. canyon-news.com

Even though I use self-tanner only on my legs, the scent wafts upward, annoying me all day. oprah.com

Many young people can correctly identify the age of a person based on their scent. theatlantic.com

Forget the pricey plane ticket, and check out the scents and sounds of Greece this weekend. honoluluweekly.com

BJ Papas makes it possible for beer to annex just about every part of your life: beer-scented candles, anyone. ocweekly.com

Scent 'has an effect on our soul', says perfumer . vancouversun.com

Every man loves the sweet scent of barbecue. lite987.com

Jagged Heart Scents & Crafts. coalvalleynews.com

D'Arcy Egan, The Plain Dealer A hard-charging English pointer is transformed into a dramatic statue in the hunting fields by the delightful scent of a game bird. cleveland.com

So many of us revel when it rains so we can enjoy the scent of the earth. venturacountystar.com

Touted on site as 'pork- scented lather of the gods'. apt.com

Bacon- scented shaving cream hits market. apt.com

You're in luck, with the recent release of a bacon- scented shaving cream. apt.com

The scent of this playdough brought even my 9-year-old running. parents.com

Usage in scientific papers

Scents are the means of global communication among modules.
Multiagent Control of Self-reconfigurable Robots

Thus, smaller values indicate a stronger scent, and a scent gradient is created throughout the structure.
Multiagent Control of Self-reconfigurable Robots

If in SEARCH mode, propagate scent and move along scent gradient.
Multiagent Control of Self-reconfigurable Robots

The node scent threshold was T = 12 and maximum branch count B = 6.
Multiagent Control of Self-reconfigurable Robots

If in SEARCH mode, propagate both scents and move along the regular scent gradient.
Multiagent Control of Self-reconfigurable Robots

Usage in literature

It lasts for all time with those who once sniff the scent of its delicious breath. "The Watchers of the Plains" by Ridgewell Cullum

Uncas, Uncas, your behavior was more like that of a curious woman than of a warrior on his scent. "The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper

Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening grain fields far away. "The World I Live In" by Helen Keller

The scent of flowers had something sad in its sweetness (as flower-scents often have); the sunset light suggested solemn thoughts. "A Vanished Hand" by Sarah Doudney

Then, as if they had scented trouble, Mr. and Mrs. "The Combined Maze" by May Sinclair

A pungent fragrance filled the air, and Daoud realized that the candles were scented. "The Saracen: Land of the Infidel" by Robert Shea

That night Dickie slept in sheets of the finest linen, scented with lavender. "Harding's luck" by E. [Edith] Nesbit

She was sweet and fresh with the night air, and sweet with the scent of grain. "The Rainbow" by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The plant is rigid, but brittle, and strong-scented. "The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise" by M. E. Hard

Then he became aware that the letter was subtly scented. "Cleo The Magnificent" by Louis Zangwill

Usage in poetry
I found thee, like the eglantine,
Sweet, simple, and apart;
And, from that hour, thy smile hath been
The flower that scents my heart.
The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who will call the wild-briar fair?
When the waves at sunset shine,
We may hear thy voice, amidst thousands more,
In the scented woods of our glowing shore,
But we shall not know 'tis thine!
The sounds and the scents that float by us —
They cannot tell whither they go;
Yet, however it fails of its errand,
Love makes the world sweeter, I know.
Only in August my heart was aflame,
Catching the scent of your Wind-stirred hair,
Now, though you spread it to soften my sleep
Through the night, I should hardly care.
And now.... It can not be! and yet
To feel 'tis so!--In heart and brain
To know 'tis so!--while warm and wet
I seem to smell those scents again,
Verbena-scents and rain.