Scent
Scent , transitive verb
[Originally sent, from French sentir to feel, to smell. See Sense.]
1.
To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
Methinks I scent the morning air.
2.
To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
Balm from a silver box distilled around,
Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground.
Scent , intransitive verb
1.
To have a smell. [Obsolete]
Thunderbolts... do scent strongly of brimstone.
2.
To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Scent , noun
1.
That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial.
2.
Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
He gained the observations of innumerable ages, and traveled upon the same scent into Ethiopia.
3.
The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent. — I. Watts