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To become obsolescent. [R.] Fitzed. Hall.

Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume. Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around. Spenser. To be in bad odor, to be out of favor, or in bad repute.

A perfume; a strong scent. [Obs.] Burton.

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.

Denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood. That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Luke i. 35. I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you. 1 Cor. xi. 23.…

Scented. [R.] R. Browning.

t from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent.

To bark on scent or view of the game.

One of a pair of scent organs which the larvæ of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.

An oxysulphide. [Obsolescent]

cestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

. The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.

nal one, January, 1861, had a white palmetto in the center of a blue field and a white crescent in the upper left-hand corner.

A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.

Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained as a deliquescent white crystalline substance, and isomeric with itaconic, citraconic, and mesaconic acids.

Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage. "Wilt thou deny thy parentage" Shak. Though men esteem thee low of parentage. Milton.

rot green. (Chem.) See Scheele's green, under Green, n. -- Parrot weed (Bot.), a suffrutescent plant (Bocconia frutescens) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer parts of America. It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid leaves, and small, panicled, apetalous flowers. -- Parrot wrasse, Parrot fish (Zoöl.), any fish…

in detail. He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Atterbury.