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noun

Stench n.

A smell; an odor. (Obs.) "Clouds of savory stench involve the sky."

An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.

Stench trap, a contrivance to prevent stench or foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc.

verb

Stench v. t. To stanch. (Obs.)

Stench v. t. To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink. (Obs.)

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"Stench" Quotes from Famous Books

... patient. Stables stunk him out. Let it to a man; I forget his name. Stables stunk HIM out. He said, 'I shall go.' 'You can't,' said my friend; 'you have taken a lease.' 'Lease be d—d,' said the other; 'I never took YOUR house; here's quite a large stench not specified in your description of the property—IT CAN'T BE THE SAME PLACE;' flung the lease at his head, and cut like the wind to foreign parts less odoriferous. I'd have got you the hole for ninety; but you are like your wife—you must go to an agent. What! ...

— A Simpleton • Charles Reade

... with the terrible stench of the other's foul breath and his filthy body. He teetered on his gnarled legs and side-stepped a vicious kick and then stepped in to gouge with straightened thumb at the other's eye. The thumb went true and ...

— Hellhounds of the Cosmos • Clifford Donald Simak

... the river, and similar sparse supplies. They died by hundreds. Disease aided starvation in carrying them off. The living were too few and too weak to bury the dead. Bodies were left unburied, and a deadly and revolting stench filled the air. That there was secret discontent and plottings for surrender may well be believed. But no such feeling dared display itself openly. Stubborn resolution and vigorous defiance continued the public tone. "No surrender" ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... the clamoring barrier of salkars and headed for the fairing. A neck snapped about; a head was lowered in his direction. He smelled the rank stench of reptile combined with burned flesh. The nearest of the brutes must have scented the Terran in turn, as it was now trying vainly to edge around to cut across Ross's path. But it was completely outclassed on land, and the ...

— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... of the sailor, with its coarseness and drudgery, its inadequate pay, its evil-smelling food, its maggoty bread, its beer drawn from casks that once had held oil or fish, its stinking salt-meat barrels, the hideous stench of the bilge-water—all this could in one sense be no worse than his sufferings in jail. In spite of self-control, jail had been to him the degradation of his hopes, the humiliation of ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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