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To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny. Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft. Milton.

arning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.

Hence, a vague rumor or flying report. [Scot.]

mpulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound. The warlike sound Of trumpets loud and clarions. Milton.

To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead. Shak.

n. And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence. Milton. Report speaks you a bonny monk. Sir W. Scott.

cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad. They, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. Matt. ix. 31.

Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. She's a most truimphant lady, if report be square to her. Shak.

To forestall; to anticipitate. Having This not to be stall'd by my report. Massinger.

To write or report in stenographic characters.

To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion. I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled. Waterland.

til and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet. It hath been anciently reported, and is still received. Bacon.

To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts. [Obs. or Colloq.]

nor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander. With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame. Massinger.

outcome of effort. Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success. Bacon. Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The tempter stood. Milton.

ion; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.

Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. I hear a talk up and down of raising our money. Locke.

To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform. A secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to tell me of Shak.

The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity. "Thunderclaps that make them quake." Spenser. When suddenly the thunderclap was heard. Dryden.