Definition of Smelled

1. Verb. (past of smell) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Smelled

1. smell [v] - See also: smell

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smelled

smell a rat
smell blood
smell blood in the water
smell fishy
smell fox
smell like a rose
smell of an oily rag
smell of the lamp
smell out
smell test
smell tests
smell the barn
smell up
smell ya later
smellable
smelled (current term)
smeller
smellers
smelleth
smellier
smellies
smelliest
smellily
smelliness
smelling
smelling(p)
smelling bottle
smelling like a rose
smelling salt
smelling salts

Literary usage of Smelled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The Universal Love for the Sea — Sailor Life — A Tale of Shipwreck and Starvation — An Unconscious Hero — An Old Sailor's Story — "I smelled the Sea an' ..."

2. The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books by Robert Pollok, William Jenks (1828)
"... and locked in close And riotous embrace, turned pale, and cold, And died, and smelled of putrefaction rank; Turned, in the very moment of delight, ..."

3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... that at the very sight of physic he would be distempered," though he never so much as smelled to it, the box of physic long after would give him a purge ..."

4. The Simple Life by Ruth King Porter (2006)
"IT WAS WARM outside, and the air smelled fresh. The sun was much brighter than it had been when Isabel went in. She followed Leroy down the sidewalk to his ..."

5. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer (1853)
"I went up, lifted the lid of one, and saw that the vessel contained warm, steaming food, which smelled very good. Some of them were filled with brown beans, ..."

6. Ordered to China: Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin Written from China While by Wilbur J. Chamberlin (1903)
"The place smelled to heaven, like all Chinese cities, and I was glad enough to get out of it, I can tell you. I'm going back again, 'however, to-morrow, ..."

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