Small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water.

Small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters.

Polish: stynka

Extract (metals) by heating.

Roget 384: heat, warm, chafe, stive^†, foment; make hot etc. 382; sun oneself, sunbathe.    go up in flames, burn to the ground (flame) 382.    fire; set fire to, set on fire; kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light; apply the match to, apply the torch to; rekindle, relume^†; fan the flame, add fuel to the flame; poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire; make a bonfire of.    melt, thaw, fuse; liquefy etc. 335.    burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy^†, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify^†; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames.    boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer; do to rags.    take fire, catch fire; blaze etc. (flame) 382.    ... show more

Roget 673: prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation.    set in order, put in order etc. (arrange) 60; forecast etc. (plan) 626; prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil; predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first stone etc. (begin) 66.    roughhew; cut out work; block out, hammer out; lick into shape etc. (form) 240.    elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture etc. (aid) 707; hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate^†; maturate.    equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim^†, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust etc. (fit) 27; put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.    train etc. (teach) 537; inure etc. (habituate) 613; breed; prepare for &c.; rehearse; make provision for; take steps, take measures, take precautions; provide, provide against; beat up for recruits; open the door to etc. (facilitate) 705.    set one's house in order, make all snug; clear the decks, clear for action; close one's ranks; shuffle the cards.    prepare oneself; serve an apprenticeship etc. (learn) 539; lay oneself out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor, reculer pour mieux sauter [Fr.], prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up, put the horses to.    guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's nest; lay in provisions etc. 637; make investments; keep on foot.    be prepared, be ready etc. adj.; hold oneself in readiness, keep one's powder dry; lie in wait for etc. (expect) 507; anticipate etc. (foresee) 510; principiis obstare [Lat.]; veniente occurrere morbo [Lat.].    ... show more

The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form:
— She loved the smell of roses.

synonyms: odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation.

Roget 401: fetor^†; bad etc. adj.. smell, bad odor; stench, stink; foul odor, malodor; empyreuma^†; mustiness etc. adj.; rancidity; foulness etc. (uncleanness) 653.    stoat, polecat, skunk; assafoetida^†; fungus, garlic; stinkpot; fitchet^†, fitchew^†, fourmart^†, peccary.    acridity etc. 401.1. ... show more

Dutch: geur, geurtje, lucht, odeur, reuk

Any property detected by the olfactory system.

synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, scent.

Roget 398: odor, smell, odorament^†, scent, effluvium; emanation, exhalation; fume, essence, trail, nidor^†, redolence.    sense of smell; scent; act of smelling etc. v.; olfaction, olfactories^†.    [pleasant odor] fragrance etc. 400.    odorant.    [animal with acute sense of smell] bloodhound, hound.    [smell detected by a hound] spoor.    ... show more

Dutch: geur, geurtje, lucht, odeur, reuk
Polish: zapach, woń

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people:
— It had the smell of treason.

synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, spirit, tone.

Dutch: accent, gevoel, toon

The faculty that enables us to distinguish scents.

synonyms: olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell.

Dutch: neus, reuk, reukzin
Polish: powonienie, węch

The act of perceiving the odor of something.

synonym: smelling.

Polish: wąchanie

Inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense.

Dutch: ruiken

Emit an odor.

Roget 401: have a bad smell etc. n.; smell; stink, stink in the nostrils, stink like a polecat; smell strong etc. adj., smell offensively.   

Smell bad.

Dutch: stinken

Have an element suggestive (of something):
— This passage smells of plagiarism.

synonyms: reek, smack.

Roget 398: have an odor etc. n.; smell, smell of, smell strong of; exhale; give out a smell etc. n.; reek, reek of; scent.    smell, scent; snuff, snuff up; sniff, nose, inhale.    ... show more

Become aware of not through the senses but instinctively:
— I smell trouble.
— Smell out corruption.

synonyms: sense, smell out.