Adj. odorous, odoriferous; smelling, reeking, foul-smelling, strong- scented; redolent, graveolent^, nidorous^, pungent; putrid, foul.

Doubtless the writer was thinking of Dogberry's "Comparisons are odorous.

Here is no odorous breath of violet or honeysuckle, no delicate perfume of primrose or sweetbriar, only a musty, dank, earthy smell which gets more and more pronounced as the mists rise along with the deadly vapours of the night.

On the other hand, the bees carefully suck and gather the juice of odorous and fragrant flowers, in order to make their honey; and range it in such an order as may serve for a pattern to men.

" Katherine could not forbear a grimace as she spoke, for peltry can be a very odorous currency, and she had to examine every skin closely before deciding what it was worth in flour, bacon, or tobacco, because the red man is a past master in the art of outwitting the white man, when it comes to a question of trade.

Out of her fruit she annually conserved miracles of flavor and transparence,great plums like those in Aladdin's garden, of shining topaz,peaches tinged with the odorous bitter of their pits, and clear as amber,crimson crabs floating in their own ruby sirup, or transmuted into jelly crystal clear, yet breaking with a grain,and jelly from the acid currants to garnish her dinner-table or refresh the fevered lips of a sick neighbor.

for you've charm'd me here Soul of the Rose, from divine Cashmire I'm come,all orient, odorous, rare, An Eden-breath in your boreal air; I'm come.

but mine odorous, elfin wing Rises from earth, and that one fair thing First Love's first sigh, which ye know to be, More exquisite, and more brief than me!

"Some odorous," he commented to a mud-caked private hunkered down on his heels on the fire-step with his back against the trench wall.

We have seen herbarium specimens that were mildly and pleasantly odorous after several years.

About a year after death the bones were cleaned, bleached, painted, wrapped in odorous balsams, placed in a wicker basket, and kept suspended from the door of their dwelling (Gumilla Hist.

Thus, it is well known that the creeping thistle is hurtful to oats, erigeron acre to wheat, scabiosa arvensis to flax, &c. Why are some resins odorous? Because they contain essential oil; some afford benzoic acid when heated, and these have been termed balsams; such as tolu balsam and benzoin.

The dusk had fallen, velvety and odorous, and the stars came peeping shyly forth.

The timorous, odorous violet must be sprouting on the damp ground yonder under the alders!

The mocker-nut, with seven or nine leaflets, a hard, thick-shelled nut, and leaflets and twigs very downy when young, and strongly odorous.

The wood is reddish, somewhat odorous, very light, soft and fine-grained.

And pressed by his hand, the flowers did not lose their original forms, but, on the contrary, became gayer and more odorous than before.

For the atmosphere was stifling and odorous, and the ceiling descended in an odd bulging curve to within a couple of feet of his head.

Pleasing, odorous, sweet.

One succeeded in unscrewing a large chandelier which hung from the centre of the front parlor, and the gas came pouring through the opening in odorous volumes, while the spoliator waddled off to the door with his prize.

The odorous echo of a score of dead summers lingers yet in those dim recesses.

I took it from his hand; it was a pink, faintly odorous blossom.

" "There is something in this soft, beautiful, odorous night that makes one mad.

THE MADDING CROWD Any woman can drive an electric automobile, any man can drive a steam, but neither man nor woman can drive a gasoline; it follows its own odorous will, and goes or goes not as it feels disposed.

In an hour, Juliet woke again, vaguely remembering a heavenly dream, whose odorous air yet lingered, and made her happy, she knew not why.