smeth.html - {v. phr.}, {informal} To be suspicious; feel that something is wrong. * /Every time Tom visits me, one of my ashtrays disappears. I'm beginning to smell a rat./ * /When the policeman saw a light go on in the store at midnight, he smelled a rat./

smeth.html - See: FERRET OUT.

smeth.html - {v.}, {informal} To make a bad smell. * /A skunk smelled up our yard last night./ * /Mr. Brodsky's cigar smelled up the living room./

smeth.html - v. & n.
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tr.
1 daub or mark with a greasy or sticky substance or with something that stains.
2 blot; smudge; obscure the outline of (writing, artwork, etc.).
3 defame the character of; slander; attempt to or succeed in discrediting (a person or his name) publicly.

--n.

1 the act or an instance of smearing.
2 Med. a material smeared on a microscopic slide etc. for examination. b a specimen of this.

smear test = cervical smear.

smearer n. smeary adj. [OE smierwan f. Gmc]

smeth.html - n.
a sebaceous secretion in the folds of the skin, esp. of the foreskin.

smegmatic adj. [L f. Gk smegma -atos detergent f. smekho cleanse]

smeth.html - n. & v.
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1 the faculty of perceiving odours or scents (has a fine sense of smell).
2 the quality in substances that is perceived by this (the smell of thyme; this rose has no smell).
3 an unpleasant odour.
4 the act of inhaling to ascertain smell.

--v.

(past and past part. smelt or smelled)
1 tr. perceive the smell of; examine by smell (thought I could smell gas).
2 intr. emit odour.
3 intr. seem by smell to be (this milk smells sour).
4 intr. (foll. by of) a be redolent of (smells of fish). b be suggestive of (smells of dishonesty).
5 intr. stink; be rank.
6 tr. perceive as if by smell; detect, discern, suspect (smell a bargain; smell blood).
7 intr. have or use a sense of smell.
8 intr. (foll. by about) sniff or search about.
9 intr. (foll. by at) inhale the smell of.

smelling-bottle a small bottle of smelling-salts. smelling-salts ammonium carbonate mixed with scent to be sniffed as a restorative in faintness etc. smell out 1 detect by smell; find out by investigation.
2 (of a dog etc.) hunt out by smell. smell a rat begin to suspect trickery etc.

smellable adj. smeller n. smell-less adj. [ME smel(le), prob. f. OE]