Definition of scent

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Scent (n.) 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..

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Scent :: Scent (v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
Deoxidizer :: Deoxidizer (n.) That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer..
Extraction :: Extraction (n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
Thunderbird :: Thunderbird (n.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher..
Cinerescent :: Cinerescent (a.) Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.
Perfume :: Perfume (v. t.) To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
Efflorescent :: Efflorescent (v. i.) That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt..
Ambrose :: Ambrose (n.) A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3..
Tartralic :: Tartralic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white amorphous deliquescent substance, C8H10O11; -- called also ditartaric, tartrilic, or tartrylic acid..
Tabescent :: Tabescent (a.) Withering, or wasting away..
Coalescent :: Coalescent (a.) Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting..
Quiescent :: Quiescent (n.) A silent letter.
Trail :: Trail (n.) A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail..
Declension :: Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
Obsolescent :: Obsolescent (a.) Going out of use; becoming obsolete; passing into desuetude.
Acquiescently :: Acquiescently (adv.) In an acquiescent manner.
Frutescent :: Frutescent (a.) Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria..
Periblem :: Periblem (n.) Nascent cortex, or immature cellular bark..
Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc..
Pedigree :: Pedigree (n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
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