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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.

A pungent oily substance obtained by redistilling bone oil. [Obs.]

Free from odor.

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 corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases. "Ods bodikin." "Ods pity." Shak.

See Od. [Archaic].

Of or pertaining to odyle; odic; as, odylic force. [Archaic]

An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. "Able-bodied vagrant." Froude. -- A`ble-bod"ied*ness, n..

To clear (tress) from knots. [R.] Blount.

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.

An omen; a portending. [Obs.]

Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

A foreboding. [Obs.]

In the act of brooding. [Obs.] Abp. Sancroft.

Having spinous petioles.

That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. [R.] I. Watts.