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Definition of Olfactories
1. olfactory [n] - See also: olfactory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Olfactories
Literary usage of Olfactories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1896)
"... and warmed myself by a red-hot stove, among biscuit-barrels, pots and kettles,
sea-chests, and innumerable lumber of all sorts, — my olfactories, ..."
2. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1880)
"... have been perfectly satisfactory, the only objection to it being its odor,
which to patients with sensitive olfactories is occasionally annoying. ..."
3. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1894)
"... nostrils of the whole column of horses, very much as the appetizing smell of
a steaming breakfast might have appealed to the olfactories of our riders. ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1904)
"Retried in vain (which was to have been foreseen) to conceal the female by
odors »hich are strong even to our olfactories. The males came notwithstanding. ..."
5. The Mercersburg Review by Alumni Association, Pa.) Marshall College (Mercersburg (1849)
"A PLEA FOR OUR olfactories. I AM not inclined to fall in with the great ...
Our olfactories are wrought upon often as powerfully as our organs of sight. ..."
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