smell

1. Smell
   The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint. "Breathing the smell of field and grove.", "That which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violent."
2. Smell
   The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
3. Smell
   To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.
4. Smell
   To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out. "I smell a device.", "Can you smell him out by that?"
5. Smell
   To exercise sagacity.
6. Smell
   To exercise the sense of smell.
7. Smell
   To give heed to. "From that time forward I began to smell the Word of God, and forsook the school doctors."
8. Smell
   To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny. "Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft."
9. Smell
   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.

1. smell
   To perceive through the nose, by means of the olfactory nerves; perceive the scent of; scent; nose.
2. smell
   To perceive as if by smell; perceive in any way; especially, to detect by peculiar sagacity or a sort of instinct; smell out.
3. smell
   To inhale the smell or odor of; test by the sense of smell: oftener intransitive, with of or at.
4. smell
   To give out an odor; affect the olfactory sense: as, the rose smells sweet.
5. smell
   Specifically, to give out an offensive odor: as, how the place smells!
6. smell
   To have an odor (of a specified kind); be scented with: with of: as, to smell of roses.
7. smell
   Figuratively, to appear to be of a certain nature or character, as indicated by the smell: generally followed by like or of.
8. smell
   To inhale a smell or odor as a gratification or as a test of kind or quality, etc.: colloquially with of, formerly sometimes with to or unto.
9. smell
   To snuff; try to smell something; figuratively, to try to smell out something: generally with about: as, to go smelling about.
10. (n) smell
    The faculty of perceiving by the nose; senseperception through the olfactory nerves; the olfactory faculty or function; the physiological process or function whereby certain odoriferous qualities of bodies, as scent or effluvium, are perceived and recognized through sensation; olfaction; scent; often with the definite article, as one of the special senses: as, the smell in dogs is keen. The essential organ of smell is located in a special part or lobe of the brain, the rhinencephalon, or olfactory lobe, whence are given off more or fewer olfactory nerves, which pass out of the cranial cavity into the nasal organ, or nose, in the mucous or Schneiderian membrane of the interior of which they ramify, so that air laden with odoriferous particles can affect the nerves when it is drawn into or through the nasal passages. In man the sense of smell is very feeble and imperfect in comparison with that of many animals, especially of the carnivores, which pursue their prey by scent, and ruminants, which escape their enemies by the same means. Smell in the lower animals seems to be the guiding sense in determining their choice of food.
11. (n) smell
    That quality of anything which is or may be smelled; an odoriferous effluvium; an odor or scent, whether agreeable or offensive; a fragrance, perfume, or stench; aroma: as, the smell of thyme; the smell of bilge-water.
12. (n) smell
    A faint impression; a subtle suggestion; a hint; a trace: as, the poem has a smell of the woods.
13. (n) smell
    An act of smelling: as, he took a smell at the bottle. Synonyms Smell, Scent, Odor, Savor Perfume, Fragrance, Aroma, Stench, Stink, Smell and scent express the physical sense, the exercise of the sense, and the thing which appeals to the sense. The others have only the last of these three meanings. Of the nine words the first four may express that which is pleasant or unpleasant, the next three only that which is pleasant, the last two only that which is very unpleasant. Smell is the general word; the others are species under it. Scent is the smell that proceeds naturally from something that has life: as, the scent of game; the scent of the tea-rose. Odor is little more than a Latin substitute for smell; as, the odor of musk, of decaying vegetation; it may be a dainty word, as smell cannot be. Savor is a distinctive smell, suggesting taste or flavor, proceeding especially from some article of food: as, the savor of garlic. Perfume is generally a strong or rich but agreeable smell. Fragrance is best used to express fresh, delicate, and delicious odors especially such as emanate from living things: as, the fragrance of the violet, of new-mown hay, of the breath of an infant. Aroma should be restricted to a somewhat spicy smell; as, the aroma of roasted coffee, or of the musk-rose. Stench and stink are historically the same word, in different degrees of strength, representing a strong, penetrating, and disgusting odor; stink is not for polite use.

1. (v.i) Smell
   smel to affect the nose: to have odour: to use the sense of smell
2. (v.t) Smell
   to perceive by the nose:—pa.t. and pa.p. smelled or smelt
3. (n) Smell
   the quality of bodies which affects the nose: odour: perfume: the sense which perceives this quality

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