<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.</li><li>an odor left in passing, by means of which an animal or person may be traced.</li><li>a track or trail as or as if indicated by such an odor: The dogs lost the scent and the prisoner escaped.</li><li>perfume.</li><li>the sense of smell: a remarkably keen scent.</li><li>small pieces of paper dropped by the hares in the game of hare and hounds.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to perceive or recognize by or as if by the sense of smell: to scent trouble.</li><li>Synonyms: sniff, smell.</li><li>to fill with an odor; perfume.</li><li>(used without object) to hunt by the sense of smell, as a hound.</li></ul>