Word Meanings - MOUSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Infested with mice; smelling of mice.

Related words: (words related to MOUSY)

• SMELLING
  1. The act of one who smells. 2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.
• INFESTER
  One who, or that which, infests.
• INFESTIVE
  Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn.
• SMELL
  smelen, smölen, schmelen, to smoke, to reek, D. smeulen to smolder, 1. To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to
• INFESTATION
  The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance. Bacon. Free from the infestation of enemies. Donne.
• SMELL-LESS
  Destitute of smell; having no odor. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint. Beau & Fl.
• INFESTIVITY
  Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness.
• SMELL-FEAST
  1. One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. The epicure and the smell-feast. South. 2. A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.
• SMELLER
  1. One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell. 2. The nose.
• INFESTUOUS
  Mischievous; harmful; dangerous. "Infestuous as serpents." Bacon.
• INFEST
  Mischievous; hurtful; harassing. Spenser.
• SMELLING SALTS
  An aromatic preparation of carbonate of ammonia and, often, some scent, to avoid or relieve faintness, headache, or the like.