smellest

«smellest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you smell — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you smell

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«smellest» means «you smell», a form of «smell»: To notice something with your nose. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou smellest» = «you smell».

examples

• Thou smellest of wood smoke and cattle--altogether like a man already. (The Jungle Book) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «smell», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «smellest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.