| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A slight amount or indication: breath, dash, ghost, hair, hint, intimation, semblance, shade, shadow, soupçon, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taste, tinge, touch, trace, whisper. Informal : whisker. See BIG, SHOW. | | VERB: | To perceive with the olfactory sense: nose, scent, smell, sniff, snuff. Idioms: catch (or get) a whiff of. See SMELLS.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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