Definition of scent

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Scent (v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.

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Redolency :: Redolency (n.) The quality of being redolent; sweetness of scent; pleasant odor; fragrance.
Opalescent :: Opalescent (a.) Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.
Incanescent :: Incanescent (a.) Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.
Tephrosia :: Tephrosia (n.) A genus of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs, mostly found in tropical countries, a few herbaceous species being North American. The foliage is often ashy-pubescent, whence the name..
High :: High (superl.) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high..
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.
Eurasian :: Eurasian (a.) Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain..
Deliquescent :: Deliquescent (a.) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees..
Eosin :: Eosin (n.) A yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluorescein, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent..
Brachystochrone :: Brachystochrone (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid..
Connate-perfoliate :: Connate-perfoliate (a.) Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset..
Lapidescent :: Lapidescent (a.) Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
Scent :: Scent (v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does..
Dendritical :: Dendritical (a.) Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent..
Clivity :: Clivity (n.) Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.
Descent :: Descent (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower..
Convalescently :: Convalescently (adv.) In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
Conyrine :: Conyrine (n.) A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine..
Steep-down :: Steep (n.) A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice..
Lunular :: Lunular (a.) Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.
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