Scent /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Scented; p. pr. & vb. n. Scenting

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.

1. To have a smell. [Obs.]

   Thunderbolts . . . do scent strongly of brimstone.

2. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

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.