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To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak.

Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne.

By scent. [R.] Fuller.

Having no scent. The scentless and the scented rose. Cowper.

Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.

Growing; increasing. Shuckford.

Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday.

Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

In an acquiescent manner.

Becoming fatty.

Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.

m childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton.

Having the form of a double crescent.

Glowing; luminous; incandescent.

Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.