Word Meanings - SENTEUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Scent. Holland.

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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.
• HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
  A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
• SCENT
  1. That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk. With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial. prior. 2. Specifically, the odor left by an animal
• HOLLAND
  A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
• SCENTINGLY
  By scent. Fuller.
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.
• HOLLANDISH
  Relating to Holland; Dutch.
• HOLLANDER
  1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.
• SCENTLESS
  Having no scent. The scentless and the scented rose. Cowper.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• INTUMESCENT
  Swelling up; expanding.
• 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.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
• DEPASCENT
  Feeding.
• SUPERCRESCENT
  Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson.
• ASCENT
  1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or
• RUFESCENT
  Reddish; tinged with red.
• COGNOSCENTE
  A conoisseur. Mason.
• CRESCENT
  The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. (more info) sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr.
• TABESCENT
  Withering, or wasting away.
• ACAULESCENT
  Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.
• CANESCENT
  Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.