Crossword clues for smelling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smell \Smell\ (sm[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smelled, Smelt; p. pr. & vb. n. Smelling.] [OE. smellen, smillen, smullen; cf. LG. smellen, smelen, sm["o]len, schmelen, to smoke, to reek, D. smeulen to smolder, and E. smolder. Cf. Smell, n.]
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.
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To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out. ``I smell a device.''
--Shak.Can you smell him out by that?
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To give heed to. [Obs.]
From that time forward I began to smellthe Word of God, and forsook the school doctors.
--Latimer.To smell a rat, to have a sense of something wrong, not clearly evident; to have reason for suspicion. [Colloq.]
To smell out, to find out by sagacity. [Colloq.]
Smelling \Smell"ing\, n.
The act of one who smells.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is smelled. vb. 1 (present participle of smell English) 2 (non-gloss definition: Used in adjectival compounds.)
WordNet
n. the act of perceiving the odor of something [syn: smell]
adj. (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous; "the hall was redolent of floor wax"; "air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey" [syn: redolent(p), smelling(p)]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "smelling".
Thereafter as the night aged, they were shown to a sleeping chamber, which albeit not richly decked, or plenished with precious things, was most dainty clean, and sweet smelling, and strewn with flowers, so that the night was sweet to them in a chamber of love.
Mallick Rel, his fat, soft hands folded together and resting on his paunch, his skin the colour of oiled leather and smelling of Aren perfumes.
She would sit by the window, and Aunty Em would open up some huge volume smelling of mushrooms and dust.
What if some other man, some bonder as blood-scored and smelling of blisterweed as old Likkarn, or some starship trooper, scentless and bloodless, had been buying her kisses at the baggery?
You could fall into a cesspit and come up not only smelling of roses but with the Shaara Crown Jewels clutched in your hot little hands.
I had brushed it, though, and it floated loose around my shoulders, smelling pleasantly of the hyssop and nettle-flower infusion I combed through it to keep lice at bay.
It was a different London then, quieter, cosier, dirtier perhaps, but sweeter smelling.
Prescott, from which I would immediately deduct my one-third share, forty thousand dollars, forty thousand sweet smelling, crisply crinkling, beautifully off-green, satisfyingly stiff new dollar bills.
When he came to the bottom of the sixth flight, three levels below winter quarters, smelling the opulent dust of the files, he was too out of breath to summon Glamdrul Feynt for a time.
We went as quick as we might along the rolling road, among live forests and dead ones, smelling the stinks of distant fumaroles as though they had been the stinks of a body decaying, waking sadly in the mornings and walking the day through no happier, urgently going, driven by our own need to do whatever it was needed doing without any real hope that it would do any good at all.
It was six flights up in a rattly elevator, and then through a security check and a very thorough frisking by an armed woman guard smelling sweetly of flowersa gimmick, Fisher thought, this pretty woman carrying out body searches on potential customers.
No, you see, the key to the whole gimmick is to confess quite cheerfully to a couple of unserious, feminine tipples, while at the same time deterring the law from smelling your breath.
Mistress Greal returned carrying a huge tray full of delicious smelling food.
She said she went home smelling of guacamole and that the karma was bad.
No one has ever spoken of smelling it before, though I have heard several claim to taste it in the water, as I have.