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

Yielding odors; fragrant. Holland.

Odorous. [Obos.] Bacon.

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.

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.

unish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men w…

An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore. [Written also pandoran.]

A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.

A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

Situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.

Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.

A proveditor; a purveyor. Busied with the duties of a provedore. W. Irving.

One who makes provision; a purveyor. [R.] De Foe.

One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

To adorn again or anew.

A reredos.

One of a body of officers charged with the government of Spanish municipalities, corresponding to the English alderman.