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scentless, a.|ˈsɛntlɪs|
[f. scent n. + -less.]
†1. Without the faculty of smell. Obs. rare—1.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 1473 Their deaf, dull Idols, sent-lesse, sight-lesse, dumb.
2. Without odour or perfume.
a1618Sylvester Tri. Faith iv. xv. Wks. (Grosart) I. 18 By Faith three Hebrews..escape the raging Fire: (Their very garments sent-lesse and entire). 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 98 Each ingredient before mixture was scentless. 1813T. Moore Last Rose of Summer 16 Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 44 Flowers..scentless.
3. Hunting. Of ground: That does not carry scent. Also of a day on which there is no scent for the hounds to follow.
1880‘Brooksby’ Hunting Countries ii. 218 Foxes occasionally travel on to these scentless heights from the Vale. 1885Field 4 Apr. 428/1 That dry, scentless cycle of days. 1921Ampleforth Jrnl. Jan. 137 On October 16th we hunted the high country, after a scentless day at Tom Smith's Cross on the previous Wednesday. 1976Horse & Hound 3 Dec. 30/3 They had an exciting, if rather scentless, morning, catching a brace of foxes, the last one within 20 yards of the kennel gates!
4. scentless mayweed, a perennial herb, Tripleurospermum maritimum (formerly Matricaria inodora), belonging to the family Compositæ and bearing white, yellow-centred flowers and finely divided leaves.
1800J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. X. 676 (heading) Corn feverfew. Scentless may-weed. 1857A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Gt. Brit. III. 315 Scentless Mayweed..puzzles the young botanist by belying its name, and having an odour which, though not aromatic, is powerful and unpleasant. 1914A. R. Horwood Story of Plant Life Brit. Isles I. 140 The Scentless Mayweed..has a larger flower and a generally darker green colour [than the stinking mayweed]. 1931M. Grieve Mod. Herbal II. 524/1 The Scentless Mayweed owes its generic name to its reputed medicinal properties. 1975E. J. Gibbons Flora of Lincolnshire 232 Scentless Mayweed... Native. Weed of cultivation. |