sweet-smelling, a.
(stress variable)
Smelling sweet; sweet-scented.
| 1388 Wyclif Ezek. xxvii. 22 Alle the beste swete smellynge spices. c 1400 26 Pol. Poems xxvi. 4 A place..Y-set aboute with floures so swete smellyng. 1535 Coverdale Jer. vi. 20 Swete smellinge Calamus from farre countrees. 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. xxii. 112 A vyoll full of sweet smelling water. 1667 Milton P.L. iv. 709 Flowers, Garlands, and sweet-smelling Herbs. 1731 Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Agrimonia, The Sweet-smelling Agrimony is by some preferr'd to the common sort for medicinal Uses. 1855 Tennyson Brook 122 He led me thro' the short sweet-smelling lanes. 1890 Science-Gossip XXVI. 146/1 The innocent-looking, sweet-smelling mint (Melissa officinalis). |