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Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne.

the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. Milton. The…

Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash.

e; to apportion. [Obs.] To which God of his bounty would shift Crowns two of flowers well smelling. Chaucer.

Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.

displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.

of Smell.

To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him. Chapman. He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. Shak. Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. Addison.

opean herbaceous plant (Achillea Ptarmica) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell.

To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.

To sniff; to snuff; to smell. It now appears that they were still snifing and hankering after their old quarters. Landor.

To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.

as, an idler sponges on his neighbor. E. Eggleston. The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers. L'Estrange.

corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.

A smell; an odor. [Obs.] Clouds of savory stench involve the sky. Dryden.

luey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious. Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a sticky stalk. Bacon.

To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.

In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.

en jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.

A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.