See distinctly (with the eyes or the mind); distinguish (an object or fact); discern.
transferred sense
Decree a person etc. to be or to do something by judicial sentence. (in the phrase “to decern in”, obsolete) To mulct in by decree of court.
Decree by judicial sentence that something be done.
intransitive
with simple object
To detect or perceive; often with out.
To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
To smell bad; to stink.
Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
To sense a smell or smells.
To smell of; to have a smell of
A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
The sense that detects odours.