Lewis Short
apprenso (adp-), āre
* V. freq. [apprendo, i. e. apprehendo], to seize something with eagerness; of the air, to catch, snuff up: naribus auras,Grat. Cyn. 239 (cf. Verg. G. 1, 376: patulis captavit naribus auras).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary