smelling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of smell
2. Used in adjectival compounds.

   “foul-smelling (having a foul smell)”

   “sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)”

noun

1. The act by which something is smelled.

   “To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]”