Word Meanings - MUSCADEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See SHAK (more info) muscadellum , fr. muscatellus nutmeglike, dim. of muscatus smelling like musk, muscatum and muscata nutmeg: cf. F. muscadelle, fr. Italian. See Musk and cf. Moschatel, Muscardin,

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• 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.
• ITALIAN
  Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.
• MOSCHATEL
  A plant of the genus Adoxa , the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. Loudon.
• NUTMEG
  The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics. Note: This fruit is a nearly spherical drupe, of the size of a pear, of a yellowish color without and almost
• NUTMEGGED
  Seasoned with nutmeg.
• 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
• ITALIANISM
  1. A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism. 2. Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy.
• ITALIANATE
  To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize. Ascham.
• SMELL-LESS
  Destitute of smell; having no odor. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint. Beau & Fl.
• 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.
• ITALIANIZE
  1. To play the Italian; to speak Italian. Cotgrave. 2. To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. "An Englishman Italianized." Lowell.
• MUSCARDINE
  A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus . Also, the fungus itself.
• MUSCARDIN
  The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor.
• SMELLING SALTS
  An aromatic preparation of carbonate of ammonia and, often, some scent, to avoid or relieve faintness, headache, or the like.