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

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.

temon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.

Emitting perfume; perfuming. [R.] Sir E. Leigh.

Perfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair; pomatum; -- originally made from apples.

A perfume to be carried with one, often in the form of a ball.

A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade. Wiseman.

A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room.

A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes. Shak.

A kind of perfume in the form of a powder, formerly much used, -- often in little bags. Smells of incense, ambergris, and pulvillios. Addison.

sis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.

s an edible berry an inch or more in diameter, and is said to have a very strong roselike perfume. -- Rose beetle. (Zoöl.) (a) A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle (Macrodactylus subspinosus), which eats the leaves of various plants, and is often very injurious to rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Calle…

na. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy. There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Shak. Marsh rosemary. (a) A little shrub (Andromeda polifolia) growing in cold swamps and having leaves like those of the rosema…

A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefe, garments, etc., to perfume them.

The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.

To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume. Balm from a silver box distilled around, Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground. Dryden.

A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer. TWo silver lamps, fed with perfumed oil, diffused . . . a trembling twilight-seeming shimmer through the quiet apartment. Sir W. Scott.

appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. "Smoking the temple." Chaucer.

s the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.