Word Meanings - NOTCHWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).

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• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• STINKWEED
  Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
• STINKARD
  The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor. (more info) 1. A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson.
• STINKPOT
  The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk. (more info) 1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel. 2. A vessel in
• SMELLING
  1. The act of one who smells. 2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.
• STINKINGLY
  In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.
• STINKHORN
  A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.
• SMELL
  smelen, smölen, schmelen, to smoke, to reek, D. smeulen to smolder, 1. 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
• STINKBALL
  A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.
• STINKING
  from Stink, v. Stinking badger , the teledu. -- Stinking cedar , the California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida .
• SMELL-LESS
  Destitute of smell; having no odor. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint. Beau & Fl.
• SMELL-FEAST
  1. One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. The epicure and the smell-feast. South. 2. A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.
• STINKER
  Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stinks.
• SMELLER
  1. One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell. 2. The nose.
• STINKWOOD
  A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.
• STINK
  To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor. (more info) OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. stökkva to leap, to spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or
• SMELLING SALTS
  An aromatic preparation of carbonate of ammonia and, often, some scent, to avoid or relieve faintness, headache, or the like.
• STINKSTONE
  One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.