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Yielding odors; fragrant. Holland.

Diffusing odor or scent; fragrant.

Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes. Milton. -- O`dor*if"er*ous*ly, adv. --O`dor*if"er*ous*ness, n.

Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling. "Odorous bloom." Keble. Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell. Spenser. -- O"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O"dor*ous*ness, n.

A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.

The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.

A fragrant variety of black tea having somewhat the flavor of green tea. [Written also oulong.]

(Bot.), any species of shrubs of the genus Philadelphus, which have whitish and often fragrant blossoms. -- Native orange, or Orange thorn (Bot.), an Australian shrub (Citriobatus parviflorus); also, its edible yellow berries. -- Orange bird (Zoöl.), a tanager of Jamaica (Tanagra zena); -- so called from its bright…

t of violets. Orris pea (Med.), an issue pea made from orris root. -- Orris root, the fragrant rootstock of the orris.

ere intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. U. S. Grant.

To grant an outpension to.

To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats.

The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients. [Written also putchuck.]

pardon for interrupting a man, or for jostling him in a crowd. The civil magistrate also grants a pardon, and not forgiveness. The two words are, therefore, very clearly distinguished from each other in most cases which relate to the common concerns of life.

and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant. Mozley & W.

(Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiaceæ, having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); a…

pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.

ss work. -- Patent office, a government bureau for the examination of inventions and the granting of patents. -- Patent right. (a) The exclusive right to an invention, and the control of its manufacture. (b) (Law) The right, granted by the sovereign, of exclusive control of some business of manufacture, or of the sal…

One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. Bacon.

ally, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.