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The European bullfinch. [Prov.Eng.]

The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.

See Olfactory, a.

A smelling organ; a nose. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ (Anat.), an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part of the head and lined with epithelium innervated by the olfactory (or…

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

A crafty fox. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.

of Delve. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The orange filefish. See Filefish.

A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner. [Scot.] Strutt.

One who plays golf. [Scot.]

heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.

One bred at the same school; an associate in school.

The wolf fish.

A sulphur mine.

A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity.

To sol-fa. See Sol-fa, v. i.

The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.

ink color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline; -- so called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought about the time of its discovery.