| 单词 | to lose the scent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lose the scent Phrases P1. to get (also take, pick up) the scent and variants: to detect or identify the scent trail of a quarry. to have the (also a) scent: to have identified (and be following) such a trail. Frequently with of. Also figurative and in figurative contexts (see sense 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (transitive)] > track or perceive using sense of smell i-stinkc1000 smellc1175 smakec1220 feelc1225 asmellc1320 savoura1382 scenta1425 winda1425 get1530 vent1575 nose1577 smell1608 resent1614 snuff1697 to get (also take, pick up) the scent1723 to carry scent1753 find1827 snuffle1871 flair1919 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > detect > (as) by smelling smellc1380 smell?1548 scent?1553 outsmella1563 nosea1637 to get (also take, pick up) the scent1723 snuff1790 besmell1803 sniff1864 snuffle1871 c1422They hadden a sent Of the lady [see sense 2a]. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie O 115 To vent or open as an hounde or spaniel doth when he hath the scent of any thing. 1599I took sent [see sense 2b]. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 152 There be some againe which..take vp any false scent for the truth. 1659 P. Heylyn Certamen Epistolare 365 Having taken up the scent, he hunts it over all his Book with great noise and violence. 1673 R. Honywood tr. B. Nani Hist. Republick of Venice vi. 242 Nor was the business so secretly carried betwixt the two Kings, but that the Princes Confederate with France had a scent of it. 1703 Mirth & Wisdom 13 A Detractor is one of a cunning and active Genius, a Fellow that would have no body esteem'd but himself, yet like a Hound in a Fault, takes the wrong Scent, in pursuit after a Reputation. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 61 He had got a Scent of it. 1794 W. Beaumont tr. J.-J. Barthélemy Trav. Anacharsis (ed. 2) IV. xxxix. 4 The huntsman let loose one of the dogs, and as soon as he perceived he had taken the scent, uncoupled the others. 1833 Court Mag. Oct. 156/1 The too sure bloodhound..took up the scent..and advanced in the same track Pierre had crawled away. 1841 Albion 1 May 156/2 Such an account was, of course, very unsatisfactory to the gossips. Curiosity ran to and fro, with her tongue out like a hound, to pick up the scent. 1884 L. J. Jennings in Croker Papers I. iii. 77 The police..had got scent of the intended affray. 1930 Z. Fitzgerald in College Humor Apr. 50/2 She stood on the curb like a fine, highbred hunter picking up a cosmic scent on the early winter night. 1954 J. Corbett Temple Tiger 20 The bear had got the scent of flesh and blood, mingled with the scent of tiger. 1999 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 5 Oct. a9 By the time police took up the scent, all the victims were either cremated or buried. 2008 D. A. Suffolk Boundary Stone & Bounders 206 Binky..was growling furiously because he had a scent of those impudent rabbits again. P2. to lose the scent. a. To be unable to locate or follow the scent trail of a quarry. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [phrase] > lose the track to lose the scent1567 1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast i. xvi. f. 60v The Foxe..when he is sore driuen, wil craftely mount from the earth and kepe himself a while vpon the eather of a hedge, only to cause the howndes that drawe after him to leese the sente of the tracte. 1645 J. Ricraft Looking Glasse for Anabaptists 11 To fill up your pages with other rabble, in which you hope the Reader might quite lose the sent of that question. 1746 Tricks of Town laid Open vii. 31 You see, Sir, how naturally all these Beasts of Prey hunt a Country Squire, and..they seldom lose the Scent till they have set him up. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vii. 180 ‘Thou hast lost the scent,’ said Varney, ‘of thy comrade Tressilian.’ 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Over-run, the hounds are said to over-run the scent, when they continue running past a point where the hare or fox turned off, and thus have lost the scent. 1913 Rotarian Apr. 23/1 Johnny Evers, the quick-thinking second baseman..was snapping and snarling like an angry dog who had lost the scent of an elusive hare. 1953 Life 26 Oct. 59 The dog soon lost the scent and the chase was abandoned. 2009 J. Kellerman True Detectives xiv. 132 The FBI had traced the couple to LA, then lost the scent. b. Of a quarry: to reduce, disguise, or cover one's scent trail in some way, esp. by passing through water. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > action of game > [verb (intransitive)] > baffle the hounds to run (or take) the foil1601 to run upon the foil1601 to lose the scent1682 1682 T. Long Contin. & Vindic. Def. Dr. Stillingfleet's Unreasonableness of Separation i. 2 The works and doublings of a Hare, when she is near run down, to lose the Scent. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 147 Oft in the full-descending flood he [sc. the stag] tries To lose the scent. 1892 C. B. Beach Youth's Cycl. I. 507/1 Hare, they show great cunning when pursued, doubling on their track, making long leaps and swimming streams to lose the scent and baffle the dogs that are following them. 1983 M. Huskisson Outfoxed i. 19 Tired foxes will often run through a field of farm animals or into gardens in a desperate attempt to lose their scent. P3. in (also on, upon) full scent: intent upon, or close in, pursuit of a quarry. Formerly also without preposition in the same sense. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > [adverb] > in a state of excitement agogc1450 up1470 full scent1614 atop of the house?1651 astir1837 a-seethe1879 above oneself1890 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket iv. 140 [The Gallant] is following his lusts, full sent and full crie. 1659 J. Shirley Honoria & Mammon i. i. 7 Pageants, which your Senators Ride after in full scent. 1700 F. Manning Generous Choice ii. i. 14 Their guard of Watchmen are upon the hunt... The dogs are upon full scent, and I shall be finely mumbled if I stay here. 1760 G. Cockings War iii. 89 As when fierce tygers roar amid the wood, Hunting for prey, full scent on human blood. 1806 T. Holcroft Tales in Verse I. 161 Bob's at the bar, acquires a name..but keeps intrigue Hunting, full scent, by night or day, Up the back stairs, or any way. 1872 T. Yelverton Zanita xxiii. 24 I have heard the sharp excited cry of the fox-hounds on full scent in the English hunting field. 1930 S. M. Kootz Mod. Amer. Painters p. vii The patrioteers are in full scent for some one to tag with the title The Great American Painter. 1989 Jrnl. Politics 51 171 A portrait of the [Nixon] impeachment investigation as a pack of hunting hounds in full scent after the quarry. P4. a. to put (formerly also †lay) (a dog) on the scent and variants: to set (a dog, esp. a hound) to follow a scent trail; to introduce a scent to (a dog) in order to enable it to follow a trail. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > hunt with hounds [verb (transitive)] > put on scent re-lay1590 to put (formerly also lay) (a dog) on the scenta1616 to lay on1655 put1673 to throw in1686 to cast hounds1781 lay1781 to throw on1815 a1616 J. Smith Expos. Creed (1632) i. 15 Put a hound upon a sent, and although we see nothing, yet the hound will follow the sent. 1688 G. Burnet Ill Effects Animosities Protestants 13 Whensoever the Papists & their Royal Patrens stood detected of having been conspiring against our Religion & Civil Liberties, all was diverted & stiffled by putting the Kingdom upon a false scent, and by hounding out their Beagles upon the Nonconformists. 1711 Spectator No. 116. ⁋5 He immediately called in the Dogs, and put them upon the Scent. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xxxvi. 251 We have been in pursuit of them two days; for they gave out, in order, no doubt, to put us on a wrong scent, that they were to go to Antwerp. 1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 520 Thy soldiery, the Pope's well-managed pack..when he laid them on the scent of blood, Would hunt a Saracen through fire and flood. 1803 W. Taplin Sporting Dict. 86 The hounds, who are waiting at some distance..are capped forward, and laid upon the scent. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 59/2 Let him be put on the scent of pheasants.., and let him rout them about well for a few minutes. 1870 Sydney Morning Herald 1 July 5/3 Liquids of a more potent sort were sold to customers who..were not likely to put the police on the scent of a sly grog shop. 1882 A. Ainger C. Lamb vi. 116 Lamb had a love of..putting his readers on a false scent. 1925 Pop. Mech. Dec. 916/1 The hound can be put on the scent while it is still fresh and undisturbed by vehicles, the police themselves, or sightseers attracted to the scene of the crime. 1958 J. Cleugh tr. R. Jungk Brighter than Thousand Suns xii. 199 They were put on the wrong scent by the head of the Manhattan District press agency, Jim Moynahan, who sent the false information that a munitions depot had blown up in the Alamogordo region. 2005 Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) (Nexis) 2 Jan. (Outdoors section) 10 b This allows you to find bobcat tracks that are not too old and to put the dogs on the scent. b. to throw (also put) off the scent: to cause (a dog or other animal) to lose the scent trail of a quarry. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > report or state wrongly [verb (transitive)] > lead into error, mislead dwellc888 forlereOE beleada1000 forleseOE misteachOE undergoc1000 mislearOE misleadOE bicharrea1100 bedwelec1205 overlead?c1225 misbihedec1300 miswendc1325 misguyc1375 miscounsel1389 misbeleadc1390 faitc1430 miswrest?a1475 misguide1480 scandalize1538 misadvise1548 misdraw1599 misdirect1603 traduce1613 to throw (also put) off the scenta1637 misswaya1640 undirect1647 mislight1648 widdlea1689 a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods 179 in Wks. (1640) III Speaking worst of those, from whom they went But then, fist fill'd to put me off the sent. 1819 T. Hope Anastasius III. xiii. 351 With only such few windings as were necessary to throw the blood-hounds off the scent, [I] made for the beacon. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. 213 I can hide you, so that all the devil's hounds in Montcalm's pay would be thrown off the scent for months to come. 1857 J. W. Marsh Mem. A. F. Gardiner vii. 212 A fresh coat of tar was put on the canvas, and thus the dogs were put off the scent. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 18 Aug. 3/1 ‘Soiling’, or taking water, less frequently results in throwing hounds off the scent. 1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday vii. 133 In that labyrinth of little streets he could soon throw him off the scent. 1968 I. Murdoch Nice & Good (1974) xxvii. 235 She was a person to be manipulated and deceived and put off the scent. 2003 K. Cage & M. Evans Gayle: Lang. Kinks & Queens Gloss. 95 Smoke screen, a woman..who is used by a closeted gay man as a partner at straight functions to throw people off the scent that he is gay. 2012 N. Cawthorne Canine Commandos iii. 100 Smoke from a fire burning under the floors put the dogs off the scent. P5. to carry (a or the) scent. Now somewhat rare. a. Of a dog (esp. a hound): to follow a scent trail. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (transitive)] > track or perceive using sense of smell i-stinkc1000 smellc1175 smakec1220 feelc1225 asmellc1320 savoura1382 scenta1425 winda1425 get1530 vent1575 nose1577 smell1608 resent1614 snuff1697 to get (also take, pick up) the scent1723 to carry scent1753 find1827 snuffle1871 flair1919 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [phrase] > retain scent to carry scent1753 1753 Country Gentleman's Compan. II. i. 10 The slower Dogs carrying the Scent ever before them, keep your Horse to a continual Labour. 1832 Q. Rev. Mar. 219 The scent being seldom sufficient to enable the hound to carry it up to his [sc. the fox's] kennel. a1864 R. S. Surtees Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds (1865) 42 All eyes strained to see the Invincibles carry the scent over the road. Beautiful! beautiful! were there ever such hounds? 1908 Washington Post 5 Dec. 9 The hounds gave tongue, striking a fresh trail and carrying the scent for many miles. 1977 J. N. P. Watson Bk. of Foxhunting 220 Those hounds which are actually working out with their noses the fox's line when the pack is running are said to ‘carry the scent’. b. Of ground: to retain the scent of a quarry in such a way as to enable it to be followed. ΚΠ 1878 ‘Brooksby’ Hunting Countries i. 8 The surrounding country being strongly fenced, and carrying a good scent, a bad hunter is of little use here. 1914 T. W. Burgess Mother West Wind's Children iv. 67 She knew that stones do not carry the scent well, and that Bowser the Hound would have hard work to smell her on the stone wall. 1930 Earl Bathurst in C. Frederick et al. Foxhunting ii. 34 The fox..knows roads seldom carry scent and he makes use of them when the opportunity occurs. < as lemmas |
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