Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an odorous manner; fragrantly.

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Examples

  • Then, as white flame crackled past his ear, singing his hair odorously, he hunched his big bulk into a flying tackle.

    "Neutral Vessel" by Harl Vincent, part 1 Johnny Pez 2009

  • Ramshackle stalls roofed with flapping tarpaulin and lit with naked bulbs jostled each other down each side of the littered road; their merchandise, which ranged from whelks to underwear, was open to the sooty air, while behind them tottering shops, open-fronted and ill-lit, cowered odorously.

    The Tiger in the Smoke Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1952

  • Their lantern, swinging on the lad's finger, threw a path of light before them, showing the short cropped grass, the rushy patches, or the gall they trod odorously, or the heather in its rare clumps.

    Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

  • The bread was baking odorously and a variety of shavings flying ambitiously from an embryo pipe by ten o'clock.

    Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

  • The kitchens, stables and outhouses were odorously barbaric in squalor.

    Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

  • A belt of trees on the brow of the rise protects him from the worst winds, and to the south his daughters have planted violet-beds which will breathe odorously in the spring.

    IX. On the Lineage of English Literature (II) 1916

  • He wiped the bottle carefully, inspected it briefly, and pitched it into the gully, where it smashed odorously upon a rock.

    The Uphill Climb B. M. Bower 1905

  • Commission had reserved its decision, and the newspapers had gone off on a number of other scents of wrong-doing that seemed more odorously promising.

    Together Robert Herrick 1903

  • The smell of ripening fruit came on them with pungent sweetness, their feet crashed odorously through clumps of tiger-lilies, and the dew on the ribbon-grass shook glistening drops upon their velvets.

    Michel and Angele — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The smell of ripening fruit came on them with pungent sweetness, their feet crashed odorously through clumps of tiger-lilies, and the dew on the ribbon-grass shook glistening drops upon their velvets.

    Michel and Angele — Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

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