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Scented. [R.] R. Browning.

Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv.

Feeling no compunction; apathetic. [R.] Hallywell.

Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).

Sorrowful. [Obs.] Ford.

Plaintively. See Doloroso.

Having a rank smell. [R.] Boyle.

ndulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. To waste long nights in indolent repose. Pope.

In an indolent manner. Calm and serene you indolently sit. Addison.

vel; strange; unusual. [Obs.] If one chance to derive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forth with make a jest at it. Petti If any should accuse me of being new or insolent. Milton.

In an insolent manner.

Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.

In a malevolent manner.

Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal. [Italy]

; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of. "Honey redolent of spring." Dryden. -- Red"o*lent*ly, adv. Gales . . . redolent of joy and youth. Gray.

Tinged or mingled with blood; bloody; as, sanguinolent sputa.

to sleep. -- Som"no*lent*ly, adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. De Quincey.

Given to wine; drunken; intemperate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

trong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float upon a wild and violent sea. Shak. A violent cross wind from either coast. Milton.

In a violent manner.