foresmell

plural foresmells

1. A smell which precedes or comes before something.

   His father, a man of sixty, shorter than Hugh and also pudgier, had aged unappetizingly during his recent widowhood; his things let off a characteristic foresmell, faint but unmistakable, and he grunted and sighed in his sleep, dreaming of large unwieldy blocks of blackness [...].

   1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 10

present singular third person foresmells · participle present foresmelling · participle past foresmelt · past foresmelt

1. transitiveTo smell in advance.

   "I do not foresmell any immediate harm to thee from the harness, but as you might run a risk in using it, perhaps it will be safest for me to take it," said the Medium.

   1855, Fred Folio, Lucy Boston, Shepard, Clark & Co., page 291