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What does the word scent mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive

To perceive by smell.

Part of speech: verb transitive

To render odorous; perfume.

Part of speech: verb

To hunt by scent, as dogs.

Part of speech: noun

An odor; the sense of smell.

Usage examples for scent

You quite put us off the scent!" – The Princess of the School by Angela Brazil
A scent as of roses may hang round the human mind; but the roses will be grown in some garden of the East, not in ours. – Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
I'm glad it didn't throw Miss Vaughan off the scent! – The Gloved Hand by Burton E. Stevenson