(stress variable), a. Smelling sweet; sweet-scented.
1388. Wyclif, Ezek. xxvii. 22. Alle the beste swete smellynge spices.
c. 1400. 26 Pol. Poems, xxvi. 4. A place … Y-set aboute with floures so swete smellyng.
1535. Coverdale, Jer. vi. 30. Swete smellinge Calamus from farre countrees.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., III. xxii. 112. A vyoll full of sweet smelling water.
1667. Milton, P. L., IV. 709. Flowers, Garlands, and sweet-smelling Herbs.
1731. Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Agrimonia, The Sweet-smelling Agrimony is by some preferr’d to the common sort for medicinal Uses.
1855. Tennyson, Brook, 122. He led me thro’ the short sweet smelling lanes.
1890. Science-Gossip, XXVI. 146/1. The innocent-looking, sweet-smelling mint (Melissa officinalis).
