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Definition of Scent out
1. Verb. Recognize or detect by or as if by smelling. "He can smell out trouble"
Definition of Scent out
1. Verb. (transitive) To find by following a scent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scent Out
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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