Word Meanings - SCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak. 2. To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume. Balm from a silver box distilled around, Shall all bedew the roots, and scent

Additional info about word: SCENT

1. To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak. 2. To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume. Balm from a silver box distilled around, Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCENT)

• Odor
• Smell
• scent
• fragrance
• perfume
• redolence
• effluvium
• fume
• trail
• nidor
• Perfume
• aroma
• smell
• incense
• Redolence
• savor
• odor
• Vestige
• Trace
• mark
• indication
• sign
• token
• remnant
• record

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCENT)

• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress

Related words: (words related to SCENT)

• SCENTFUL
  1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PERFUME
  1. The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet- smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma. No rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field. Pope. 2. A substance that emits an agreeable odor. And thou shalt make
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• AROMATIZE
  To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon.
• 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.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• NIDOROSE
  Nidorous. Arbuthnot.
• TOKENLESS
  Without a token.
• AROMA
  1. The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee. 2. Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius.
• PERFUMER
  1. One who, oe that which, perfumes. 2. One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.
• AROMATIZATION
  The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.
• SAVORLY
  In a savory manner. Barrow.
• INCENSEMENT
  Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
• SCENT
  1. That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk. With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial. prior. 2. Specifically, the odor left by an animal
• TRAIL
  1. To be drawn out in length; to follow after. When his brother saw the red blood trail. Spenser. 2. To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.
• INCENSER
  One who instigates or incites.
• RECORDATION
  Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. Shak.
• TRAILER
  One who, or that which, trails.
• SCENTINGLY
  By scent. Fuller.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• INTUMESCENT
  Swelling up; expanding.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• REVALESCENT
  Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• ADOLESCENT
  Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See
• CONCUPISCENTIOUS
  Concupiscent.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• LAPIDESCENT
  Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
• CONVALESCENTLY
  In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
• DELITESCENT
  Lying hid; concealed.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
• DEPASCENT
  Feeding.
• SUPERCRESCENT
  Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson.
• ASCENT
  1. 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. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or
• RUFESCENT
  Reddish; tinged with red.
• COGNOSCENTE
  A conoisseur. Mason.