scent🔊

A distinctive smell. +

A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.

The sense of smell. +

A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell. +

(figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.

(obsolete) Sense, perception.

To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell. +

To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something). +

(figurative) To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something). +

To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell. +

(obsolete) To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something). +

To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.