scent

To perceive or discern by the smell; smell: as, to scent game.

To perceive in any way; especially, to have a faint inkling or suspicion of.

To fill with smell, odor, or effluvium; cause to smell; make fragrant or stinking; perfume.

To be or become scented; have odor; be odoriferous; smell.

To hunt or pursue by scent.

An effluvium from any body capable of affecting the olfactory sense and being perceived as a smell; anything that can be smelled; odor; smell; fragrance or perfume.

A fragrant liquid distilled from flowers, etc., used to perfume the handkerchief and other articles of dress; a perfume.

The sense of smell; the faculty of olfaction; smell: as, a hound of nice scent.

The odoriferous trace of an animal’s presence; the effluvium left by an animal in passing, by means of which it may be tracked or trailed by smell; hence, the track of such an animal; the course of its pursuit: as, to lose or recover the scent, as dogs: often used figuratively of any trace by which pursuit or inquiry of any kind can be guided.