fetor (fetor)

[L., le correctly fætor, fæ tor, a stench, Being volatile and of strong natural odor, it [carbolic acid) commingles mechanically with the offensive vapors, and, being in exce , disguises for a time the fætor known to be present. Disinfectants, p. 19. I have learned to prefer this flesh [seal] to the reindeer's - at least, that of the female seal, which has not the fetor of her mate's. Kane , Sec. Grinn. Exp., I. 235. fettet, v . t . See fet1 . Chaucer .