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.
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Smell Quotations
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
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
I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
Eminem
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Margaret Thatcher
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
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
I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.
Charles Barkley
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling
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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