Definition of Scent out

1. Verb. Recognize or detect by or as if by smelling. "He can smell out trouble"

Exact synonyms: Nose Out, Smell Out, Sniff Out
Entails: Smell

Definition of Scent out

1. Verb. (transitive) To find by following a scent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scent Out

scenograph
scenographer
scenographers
scenographic
scenographical
scenographick
scenographies
scenographs
scenography
scenopoetic
scent
scent-bottle
scent glands
scent hound
scent hounds
scent out (current term)
scented
scented fern
scented penstemon
scented wattle
scentful
scenthound
scenthounds
scenting
scentings
scentless
scentless camomile
scentless false camomile
scentless hayweed
scentless mayweed

Literary usage of Scent out

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

1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"Sw. soka to seek, is applied to dogs in the sense of tracing by scent; soka som hundar, to scent out; soka efter i jorden, to root like a pig in the ground. ..."

2. A Dictionary of the Kaffir Language: Including the Xosa and Zulu Dialects by William Jafferd Davis (1872)
"2. vt To smell or scent out or after. Inja inuk antoni? What is the dog smelling at '! 3. ... scent out ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1903)
"... seems to have been " to scent out, trace, track"; and from the same old Aryan root säg have been developed English seek, German suchen (Gothic ..."

4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... to sniff, to scent out, to be compared with E. sot; and E. snuff, sniff, to be compared with Sc. souff, to breathe deep in sleep, ..."

5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... to sniff, to scent out, to be compared with E. sob ; and E. snuff, sniff, to be compared with Sc. souff, to breathe deep in sleep, ..."

6. Interwoven: Letters from a Son to His Mother by Wadsworth Cecil Tuck, Sarah Louise Ford (1905)
"Oftentimes I employ an Indian to scent out a new-born body along shore, ... So Indians scent out the peculiar magnetism of the man-mould and notify its, ..."

7. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"Riechen, be-riechen, to scent out, to trace by the scent or odour. (Odorem spi- xare et odorem percipere.— Wach.) Räch also occurs in the old romance of ..."

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