scented

Variant of scent

scent definition

scent (sent)

transitive verb

  1. to smell; perceive by the olfactory sense
  2. to get a hint or inkling of; suspect to scent trouble
  3. to fill with an odor; give fragrance to; perfume

Etymology: ME senten < OFr sentir < L sentire, to feel: see send

intransitive verb

to hunt by the sense of smell

noun

  1. a smell; odor
  2. the sense of smell
  3. a manufactured fluid preparation used to give fragrance; perfume
  4. an odor left by an animal, by which it is tracked in hunting
  5. a track followed in hunting
  6. any clue by which something is followed or detected
  7. an intuitive capacity for discovering or detecting a scent for news

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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