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# smellest

verb, old form used with thou

«smellest» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

«smellest» means «you smell», a form of «smell»: To notice something with your nose. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smellest/#m1)

### Then and now

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smellest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you smell.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «smellest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smellest/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«smellest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/smellest.html) on Mova free.