To perceive or discern by the smell; smell: as, to scent game.To perceive in any way; especially, to have a faint inkling or suspicion of.To fill with smell, odor, or effluvium; cause to smell; make fragrant or stinking; perfume.To be or become scented; have odor; be odoriferous; smell.To hunt or pursue by scent.n. An effluvium from any body capable of affecting the olfactory sense and being perceived as a smell; anything that can be smelled; odor; smell; fragrance or perfume.n. A fragrant liquid distilled from flowers, etc., used to perfume the handkerchief and other articles of dress; a perfume.n. The sense of smell; the faculty of olfaction; smell: as, a hound of nice scent.n. The odoriferous trace of an animal's presence; the effluvium left by an animal in passing, by means of which it may be tracked or trailed by smell; hence, the track of such an animal; the course of its pursuit: as, to lose or recover the scent, as dogs: often used figuratively of any trace by which pursuit or inquiry of any kind can be guided.n. n. Scraps of paper strewed on the ground by the pursued in the boys' game of hare and hounds, or by the “fox” in a paper-hunt, to enable the pursuers to track them or him.n. Inkling; faint knowledge or suspicion.n. Specilically, the supposed faculty of discerning odors in some way distinct from ordinary physical means.n. = Syn.1. Odor, Fragrance, etc. See smell.