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▪ I. smelling, vbl. n.|ˈsmɛlɪŋ|
[f. smell v.]
1. a. The sense of smell. Cf. smell n. 1.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 75 Hore loking, hore blawing, hore smelling, heore feling wes al iattret. c1230Hali Meid. 13 Sihðe & heringe, smecchunge & smeallunge. a1300Cursor M. 17017 Hering, sight, smelling and fele. 1382Wyclif 1 Cor. xii. 17 If al the body be heeringe, where is smellinge. 1426Audelay Poems 7 Thi heryng, thi seyng,..thi smellyng, here be iij [senses]. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 1444 It was odour wondir swete, Þat þar with his smellyng mete. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) I ij b, He had a good and a quycke smellyng. 1592W. Wyrley Armory, Ld. Chandos 95 Sweet is fresh aire to lost prisoners smelling. 1633Bp. Hall Occas. Med. §93 Smelling, is one of the meanest, and least useful of the senses. 1638R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. III) 101, I have lost as well my smelling as my taste. 1710Brit. Apollo No. 72. 3/1 He lost his Smelling. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 105 His senses of smelling and hearing are in no less perfection.
b. The act or fact of smelling. Also with out.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxiv. (Percy Soc.) 109 Whan that the nose therof hath smellinge. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Odor, The smellyng..of a thyng. 1611Cotgr., Halenement,..a smelling, or searching out. 1709Tatler No. 66 ⁋15 They cannot ever after come to the Use of their Teeth, or get smelling of a Crust. 1869Spencer Princ. Psychol. iii. iv. I. (1872) 304 Smelling obviously implies the contact of dispersed particles with a specially modified part of the organism. 1893Daily News 20 Sept. 5/4 A smelling-out case by witch doctors. 1899Rider Haggard Swallow ix, She never took part in the ‘smelling-out’ of human beings for witchcraft.
†2. Odour, scent, smell. Obs.
13..K. Alis. 2573 (Laud MS.), Swete is þe smellyng of þe flore. c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. 337 (Harl.), Lo, þus by smellyng and by þredbare array If þat men list, þis folk þey knowe may. c1480J. Watton Spec. Christiani 46 b, Ther of come swete smellyng; Sweter felt neuer man here lyuyng. 1483Cath. Angl. 346/1 A Smellynge, odor. 1611Cotgr., Senteur, sent, odor, smelling, sauor.
3. attrib.
†a. smelling cheat (see quots.). Cant.
1567Harman Caveat 84 A smelling chete, a garden or orchard. 1610[see smeller 2 a].
b. smelling-hair, smelling-organ, etc. (cf. smeller 3).
1596Nashe Saffron Walden Ep. Ded., Almost as slender..as a Catts smelling haires. 1871Darwin Desc. Man ii. ix. 328 Thread-like bodies, which are believed to act as smelling-organs. 1872― Orig. Spec. (ed. 6) ii. 33 The other has antennæ much more abundantly furnished with smelling-hairs.
c. smelling-bottle, a phial or small bottle for containing smelling-salts or perfume ready for use.
1722Defoe Memoirs of Plague 239 In a Word, the whole Church was like a smelling Bottle. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 259 My sister began to..use her smelling-bottle. 1827Scott Surg. Dau. Concl., When tea had been carried round, handkerchiefs and smelling bottles prepared [etc.]. 1842Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 150 He..bought me a very nice smelling-bottle. 1871M. Collins Marq. & Merch. III. xii. 285 Ethel's smelling-bottle revived one or two..ladies. 1936W. Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! vi. 195 Clytie..stood impassive beside the wagon that last day, following the second ceremonial to the grave with the silk cushion and the parasol and the smelling-bottle.
d. smelling-salts, a preparation of carbonate of ammonia and scent for smelling, used as a restorative in cases of faintness or headache.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop xlvi, Vinegar, hartshorn, and smelling-salts. 1892Mrs. Clifford Aunt Anne I. 35 She thought he was ill, and..offered him some smelling-salts.
▪ II. smelling, ppl. a.|ˈsmɛlɪŋ|
[f. smell v.]
1. Giving out a smell or odour. Chiefly with qualifying term (see also sweet-smelling).
13..Cursor M. 3695 (Gött.), Quen he had felt his smelland clath.., ‘Þis voice,’ he said, ‘þat i here, Is of Iacob’. 13..in Reliq. Antiq. I. 40, I lilie of the valeyes, that is most white chast love and moste smelȝene. c1400Mandeville (1839) ii. 11 Therfore thei made that pece [of the cross]..of Cypres; For it is welle smellynge. 1483Cath. Angl. 346/1 Smellynge, odorabilis, odorifer. 1530Palsgr. 324/2 Smellyng, that maye sone be smelled, odoratif. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. ix. 84 b, A..viall ful of sweete and smelling water. 1591Florio 2nd Frutes Ep. Ded., Some..pronosticate of faire, of foule and of smelling weather. 1611Cotgr., Regnard, a long-tailed, and ranke-smelling fish. 1848Dickens Dombey viii, It was not, naturally, a fresh-smelling house. 1888‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Childr. x, A particularly nasty smelling ferret.
2. Having the sense of smell, or the faculty of perceiving by smell. rare.
1598Marston Pygmal. iv. 150 But Grillus subtile-smelling swinish snout Must sent,..and needes will finde it out. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 121 Unto all these smelling Dogs I may also adde the water Spagnel. |