单词 | scenter-out |
释义 | > as lemmasscenter-out 1. A person or animal which perceives a scent, or which tracks or hunts by sense of smell; also figurative. Also occasionally as scenter-out. Cf. scent v. I.With quot. 1921 cf. note in etymology. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [noun] > detection > one who detects detector1608 scenter-out1838 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Flaireur, a senter, smeller, venter. 1617 L. Digges tr. Claudian Rape Proserpine ii. sig. F2 She, that in Parthenian Mountaines seekes With sure nos'd senters after chase. 1684 J. Smith Profit & Pleasure United xii. 156 The lesser sort of Hounds are the surest Scenters. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. xv. 271 He has kept his scenters of human prey for ever at my heels. 1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1848) 2nd Ser. 307 The senters-out [sic] of allegories. 1872 Canad. Monthly May 478/1 Some keen scenter after heterodoxy is even said to have discovered in Wilfred Cumbermede the germs of Universalism. 1898 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 1718/2 Even Shakespeare, who has hitherto escaped the scenters out of degeneracy, has now been convicted of ‘neurasthenia’. 1921 Boys' Life Oct. 38/2 F.C.S.: Why is your nose in the middle of you face? S.C.S.: Don't know. Why? F.C.S.: Because it's the scenter. 2002 P. Cartledge Sparta & Laconia (ed. 2) x. 149 The specially bred ‘Lakonian’ hound was valued as a scenter. < as lemmas |
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