Scent

1. n. The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
2. v. t. To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
3. v. t. To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
4. v. i. To have a smell.
5. v. i. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
6. n. 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.
7. n. Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.