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Definition of Smell |
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Smell
To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes. To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out. To give heed to. To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk. To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny. To exercise the sense of smell. To exercise sagacity. The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense. The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint. Related Definitions: Affect, Affected, An, Any, Appropriate, Are, As, Bodies, By, Calumny, Certain, Detect, Emanation, Excited, Exercise, Faculty, Followed, Fragrance, Give, Have, Heed, If, Instrumentally, Mint, Musk, Nasal, Obtain, Odor, Of, Often, Olfactory, Or, Out, Particular, Perceive, Perceived, Perfume, Qualities, Quality, Report, Rose, Sagacity, Savor, Scent, See, Sensation, Sense, Smack, Smell, Smoke, Substance, The, Therefrom, Thing, Through, Tincture, To, When, Which, With |
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Smell Quotations
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Benjamin Franklin Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. Helen Keller My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? Erma Bombeck What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. William Osler Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. Oliver Wendell Holmes The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. Margaret Thatcher An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. H. L. Mencken |
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Smell Translations
smell in Afrikaans is reuk, geur, ruik smell in Danish is lugte, lugt, stinke smell in Dutch is stinken, vies ruiken smell in Finnish is haistaa smell in French is sentir, odorat, pifer, flairer smell in German is riechen, riechen, Geruch, dufte smell in Italian is profumo, odorato, odoro smell in Latin is nidor smell in Norwegian is lukte smell in Portuguese is cheiro smell in Spanish is apestar, oler smell in Swedish is os, dofta, lukta, lukt, osa |
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