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Definition of Scentful
1. a. Full of scent or odor; odorous.
Definition of Scentful
1. Adjective. Full of scent; odorous. ¹
2. Adjective. Having a keen sense of smell. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scentful
1. having acute sense of smell [adj]
Medical Definition of Scentful
1. 1. Full of scent or odour; odourous. "A scentful nosegay." 2. Of quick or keen smell. "The scentful osprey by the rock had fished." (W. Browne) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scentful
Literary usage of Scentful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... The green grass yellowing into scentful hay. And thick-set hedges fence the
full-ear'd corn, And berries blacken on the ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"h'd nith veins of gold • And the feir creatures of the sculptor's art' Part grace
thy palace, and thy garden part • Here let the scentful spoils of opening ..."
3. The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock by William Browne, Gordon Goodwin, Arthur Henry Bullen (1894)
"180 But here I much digress, yet pardon, swains : For as a maiden gath'ring on
the plains A scentful nosegay to set near her pap, Or as a favour for her ..."
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