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Definition of Nidor
1. n. Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking.
Definition of Nidor
1. Noun. The smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat. ¹
2. Noun. (context: nonstandard) Any smell. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nidor
1. a strong smell [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nidor
Literary usage of Nidor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Classical Journal (1820)
"... by two most outrageous conjectural alterations in the second, nidor ...
and nidor is not sufficiently substantial to precede cogit, at least without the ..."
2. A Latin-English Dictionary Printed from the Unfinished Ms. of the Late by Thomas Hewitt Key (1888)
"Exi in- quam, nidor, e culina (MSS ... nidor aut pilorum, Plin. 28, 230; a.
hence esp. of sacrifices, Et dis acceptus ... in aethera nidor, Ov. M. 12, 153; ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1872)
"Then observe the context: for the odor of 681 he substitutes in 683 nidor, a word
which specially designates the smell of burnt animal matter or other ..."
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