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Smelling   /smˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
Smelling

noun
1.
The act of perceiving the odor of something.  Synonym: smell.
adjective
1.
(used with 'of' or 'with') noticeably odorous.  Synonym: redolent.  "Air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey"


Smell

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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"Smelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... in others. In this neighborhood I am known by the name of the black woodsman. I am he to whom the red men consecrated this spot, and in honor of whom they now and then roasted a white man, by way of sweet-smelling sacrifice. Since the red men have been exterminated by you white savages, I amuse myself by presiding at the persecutions of Quakers and Anabaptists; I am the great patron and prompter of slave-dealers and the grand-master ...
— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various
... willow tree. She shrank from the little jungle of rank plants before her, evil-smelling figwort and hemlock. But ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... dawn when George Brotherton had told his story to Laura. They sat in the little, close, varnish-smelling room to ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... the good-morrow master never missed sin' he were a boy till—Well! and now you've seen the beds, and can say they looked mighty pretty, and is done all as you wished; and we're got out again, and breathing fresher air than yon sunbaked hole, with its smelling flowers, not half so wholesome to snuff at ...
— A Dark Night's Work • Elizabeth Gaskell
... evidently on the verge of collapse, and I hastened to get her a glass of water, but when I returned with it, she had her smelling bottle to her nose and was almost herself again. She waved the glass ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds


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