Word Meanings - SCENTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne.
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- SCENTFUL
1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne. - QUICKBEAM
See TREE - FISHHAWK
The osprey , found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard. - 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. - QUICKSTEP
A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing. - FISH-TAIL
Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller , a propeller with a single blade - QUICKNESS
1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With - FISHWIFE
A fishwoman. - NOSEGAY
A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy. Pope. - FISHINESS
The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant. - SCENTINGLY
By scent. Fuller. - QUICKSILVER
The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water. - QUICKHATCH
The wolverine. - QUICKEN TREE
The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. (more info) aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum, - QUICKWORK
All the submerged section of a vessel's planking. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps. The short planks between the portholes. - QUICK-WITTED
Having ready wit Shak. - FISH-TACKLE
A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block. - FISHMONGER
A dealer in fish. - QUICKENS
Quitch grass. - FISHERY
The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters. Abbott. (more info) 1. The business or practice of catching fish; fishing. Addison. 2. A place for catching fish. - SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. - BONEFISH
See LADYFISH - FLORESCENT
Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See - INTUMESCENT
Swelling up; expanding. - MUFFISH
Stupid; awkward. - TIFFISH
Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant. - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - YELLOWFISH
A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel. - REVALESCENT
Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be - ADOLESCENT
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See - CONCUPISCENTIOUS
Concupiscent. - LAPIDESCENT
Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies. - CONVALESCENTLY
In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor. - DELITESCENT
Lying hid; concealed. - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - DOGFISH
1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc. Note: The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and S. canicula) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked, - DEPASCENT
Feeding. - INEFFERVESCENT
Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent. - WINGFISH
A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.