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Same as Lamellirostres.

Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash.

To scatter about. [Obs.] Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Milton.

; to apportion. [Obs.] To which God of his bounty would shift Crowns two of flowers well smelling. Chaucer.

Somewhat shrill. [Poetic] Sir W. Scott. Some kept up a shrilly mellow sound. Keats.

Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.

displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.

Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell

od mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.

of Smell.

To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him. Chapman. He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. Shak. Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. Addison.

pean herbaceous plant (Achillea Ptarmica) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell.

To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.

To sniff; to snuff; to smell. It now appears that they were still snifing and hankering after their old quarters. Landor.

To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.

The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure.

Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose. Spathic iron (Min.), siderite. See Siderite (a).

The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric, a.

as, an idler sponges on his neighbor. E. Eggleston. The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers. L'Estrange.

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.