Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The bag or pouch of an animal which secretes or contains a special odoriferous substance, as those of deer, beaver, skunks, etc.; a scent-gland.
  • noun A bag containing anise-seed or some other odoriferous substance, used in fox-hunting as a substitute for the fox.

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Examples

  • Dressing my hair that night, Carmine, my maid, begged for the remnants of the bell-wort to "make a scent-bag with, Miss."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

  • Maltese gauze, with garlands about his head and neck, applying a delicate scent-bag to his nose as he went.

    The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

  • Even the gold hair-ornaments, and the half of a round gold box shared with the Emperor as an emblem of conjugal unity, had gone; the only trace of the dead beauty was the scent-bag in which she had kept her treasures.

    Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

  • Cant. 1: 13 is rather a "bag" of myrrh or a scent-bag.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • And they could not but admire the young men, who did not care for politics or any business beyond the chances of the stock exchange, but who expended an immense amount of energy in the dangerous polo contests, in riding at fences after the scent-bag, in driving tandems and four-in-hands, and yet had time to dress in the cut and shade demanded by every changing hour.

    Little Journey in the World Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • And they could not but admire the young men, who did not care for politics or any business beyond the chances of the stock exchange, but who expended an immense amount of energy in the dangerous polo contests, in riding at fences after the scent-bag, in driving tandems and four-in-hands, and yet had time to dress in the cut and shade demanded by every changing hour.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • With the exception of a plinth, also in ivory, admirably inlaid with mother-of-pearl, the bed was entirely covered with white satin, wadded and quilted like an immense scent-bag.

    The Wandering Jew — Volume 07 Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • With the exception of a plinth, also in ivory, admirably inlaid with mother-of-pearl, the bed was entirely covered with white satin, wadded and quilted like an immense scent-bag.

    The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • For one thing, you're awful short of dishes and bedding, and you can't ever have no company -- unless, "she added, with withering sarcasm," you give 'em little vases to drink out of, and put 'em to bed under a picture-drape, with a pin-cushion or a scent-bag for a piller. "

    Different Girls Various

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