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Smell   /smɛl/   Listen
Smell

noun
1.
The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.  Synonyms: odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation.
2.
Any property detected by the olfactory system.  Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, scent.
3.
The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people.  Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, spirit, tone.  "A clergyman improved the tone of the meeting" , "It had the smell of treason"
4.
The faculty that enables us to distinguish scents.  Synonyms: olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell.
5.
The act of perceiving the odor of something.  Synonym: smelling.
verb
(past & past part. smelt or smelled; pres. part. smelling)
1.
Inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense.
2.
Emit an odor.
3.
Smell bad.
4.
Have an element suggestive (of something).  Synonyms: reek, smack.  "This passage smells of plagiarism"
5.
Become aware of not through the senses but instinctively.  Synonyms: sense, smell out.  "I smell trouble" , "Smell out corruption"



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"Smell" Quotes from Famous Books



... sweet sleep and pleasant dreams; and sometimes there are the sweet surprises along life's highway; the sudden song of birds or burst of sunshine; the glory of the sunrise, and sunset, and the flash of bluebirds' wings across the road, and the smell of ...
— In Times Like These • Nellie L. McClung

... his nervous system was wrought up to a pitch of frenzy. He would rush from the cabin, climb along the hill-side, run leaping from rock to rock, now and then screaming like a maniac. Then he would rush back to the cabin, seize a plug of tobacco, smell it, rub it against his lips, and away he would go again. He smelt, but never tasted ...
— California Sketches, Second Series • O. P. Fitzgerald

... has always talked about writin' folks and poets starvin' in garrets. If you went up attic to work he'd be teasin' me from mornin' to night. Besides, you'd freeze up there, if the smell of moth-balls didn't choke you first. No, you wait; I've got a notion. There's that old table desk of Zelotes' in the settin' room. He don't hardly ever use it nowadays. You take it upstairs to your own room and work in there. You can have the ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... shadow of a hawthorn brake, Where bluebells draw the sky down to the wood, Where, 'mid brown leaves, the primroses awake And hidden violets smell of solitude; Beneath green leaves bright-fluttered by the wing Of fleeting, beautiful, immortal Spring, I should have said, "I love you," and your eyes Have said, "I, too . . . " ...
— Many Voices • E. Nesbit

... the narrow and cart-encumbered street, showed her at once the nature of the business of Fletcher & Co. It was something in the twine and cordage way. There were everywhere great coils of ropes and bales of twine, and the dark rooms had a tarry smell. Mr. Fletcher was in his office, a little space partitioned off in the rear, with half a dozen clerks working by gaslight, and a little sanctum where the senior partner was ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner


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