| 单词 | sense, organ, etc, of smell |
| 释义 | > as lemmassense, organ, etc., of smell 1. The sense of which the nose is the organ; the faculty of smelling. Now usually in sense, organ, etc., of smell. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > sense of smell smellingc1175 smellc1200 nosea1375 odoura1450 scent1488 odorate1614 parosmis1817 parosmia1884 osmatism1903 (a) (b)1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xxv. 179 The Power of exciting the Sensation of Smell in us.1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 549 The lower Mammalia, in which the organ of smell is highly developed.1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) viii. 194 The organ of the sense of smell is the delicate mucous membrane which lines a part of the nasal cavities.1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam ii. 40 Elephants have a very keen sense of smell.c1200 Trin Coll. Hom. 183 Hie..binimeð þe eien here sene,..muð here smel. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 83 Smel of nase is þe feorðe of þe fif wittes. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 106 He is not onely of most swift pace, but also of smell. 1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 45 In the Nosthrils she doth vse the smell. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 35 He who hath a quicke smell, is troubled with more stinkes, then he is refreshed with sweet odours. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 123 Wild Thyme and Sav'ry..Sweet to the Taste, and fragrant to the Smell . View more context for this quotation 1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 3 Jan. (1948) II. 594 I have no smell yet but my cold something better. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 317 He stops to examine, by his smell,..the emanations that may come either from his enemy or his prey. 1805 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. III. 145 A certain brackish flavor, offensive both to the taste and smell. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 324 Smell was impaired on the side of the lesion. < as lemmas |
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