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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Smell \Smell\, v. i. 1. To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk. [1913 Webster] 2. To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny. [1913 Webster] Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To exercise the sense of smell. --Ex. xxx. 38. [1913 Webster] 4. To exercise sagacity. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Smell \Smell\ (sm[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smelled}, {Smelt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smelling}.] [OE. smellen, smillen, smullen; cf. LG. smellen, smelen, sm["o]len, schmelen, to smoke, to reek, D. smeulen to smolder, and E. smolder. Cf. {Smell}, n.] 1. To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes. [1913 Webster] 2. To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out. "I smell a device." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Can you smell him out by that? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To give heed to. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] From that time forward I began to smellthe Word of God, and forsook the school doctors. --Latimer. [1913 Webster] {To smell a rat}, to have a sense of something wrong, not clearly evident; to have reason for suspicion. [Colloq.] {To smell out}, to find out by sagacity. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Smell \Smell\, n. [OE. smel, smil, smul, smeol. See {Smell}, v. t.] (Physiol.) 1. The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See {Sense}. [1913 Webster] 2. The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint. [1913 Webster] Breathing the smell of field and grove. --Milton. [1913 Webster] That which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violent. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Syn: Scent; odor; perfume; fragrance. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: smell n 1: the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses" [syn: {smell}, {odor}, {odour}, {olfactory sensation}, {olfactory perception}] 2: any property detected by the olfactory system [syn: {olfactory property}, {smell}, {aroma}, {odor}, {odour}, {scent}] 3: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: {spirit}, {tone}, {feel}, {feeling}, {flavor}, {flavour}, {look}, {smell}] 4: the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents [syn: {smell}, {sense of smell}, {olfaction}, {olfactory modality}] 5: the act of perceiving the odor of something [syn: {smell}, {smelling}] v 1: inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense 2: emit an odor; "The soup smells good" 3: smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells" 4: have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism" [syn: {smack}, {reek}, {smell}] 5: become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption" [syn: {smell}, {smell out}, {sense}]