OLFACT', verb transitive [Latin olfacto, olfacio; oleo, to smell, and facio, to make.] To smell; used in burlesque, but not otherwise authorized.
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Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
OLFACT', verb transitive [Latin olfacto, olfacio; oleo, to smell, and facio, to make.] To smell; used in burlesque, but not otherwise authorized.
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