Definition of "smelling" []

• Present participle of smell. (verb)
• Used in adjectival compounds. (verb)

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• "a faculty so separate as in her, so positive and salient, like smelling or sight -- more like _smelling_: for it is the faculty, half Reason, half"
• "Now that Galifianakis is in L.A. to promote his movie he's staying in a hotel, which he described as smelling like "if a foot could fart," which was just one of the his many ridiculous quotes."
• "But make no mistake: This was not some weird, exiled Gershwin smelling of vodka and revolution."