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ant or offensive; scent; perfume. Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around. Spenser. To be in bad odor, to be out of favor, or in bad repute.

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.

bove a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.

A deodorizer.

The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.

To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.

He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors.

One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates.

Inodorous. [Obs.] Bacon.

Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless. -- In*o"dor*ous*ness, n.

See Malodor.

An Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling. -- Mal*o"dor*ous*ness. n. Carlyle.

Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling. -- Mal*o"dor*ous*ness. n. Carlyle. [1913 Webster]