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Sweet \
Sweet \,
a . [
Compar . {
Sweeter };
superl . {
Sweetest }.] [
OE .
swete ,
swote ,
sote ,
AS .
sw [=
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te ;
akin to OFries .
sw [=
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te ,
OS .
sw [=
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ti ,
D .
zoet ,
G .
s ["
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ss ,
OHG .
suozi ,
Icel .
saetr ,
soetr ,
Sw .
s ["
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t ,
Dan .
s ["
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d ,
Goth .
suts ,
L .
suavis ,
for suadvis ,
Gr . ?,
Skr .
sv [=
a ]
du sweet ,
svad ,
sv [=
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d ,
to sweeten . [
root ]
175 .
Cf . {
Assuage }, {
Suave }, {
Suasion }.]
1 .
Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar ;
saccharine ; --
opposed to sour and bitter ;
as ,
a sweet beverage ;
sweet fruits ;
sweet oranges .
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2 .
Pleasing to the smell ;
fragrant ;
redolent ;
balmy ;
as ,
a sweet rose ;
sweet odor ;
sweet incense .
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The breath of these flowers is sweet to me .
--
Longfellow .
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3 .
Pleasing to the ear ;
soft ;
melodious ;
harmonious ;
as ,
the sweet notes of a flute or an organ ;
sweet music ;
a sweet voice ;
a sweet singer .
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To make his English sweet upon his tongue .
--
Chaucer .
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A voice sweet ,
tremulous ,
but powerful . --
Hawthorne .
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4 .
Pleasing to the eye ;
beautiful ;
mild and attractive ;
fair ;
as ,
a sweet face ;
a sweet color or complexion .
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Sweet interchange Of hill and valley ,
rivers ,
woods ,
and plains .
--
Milton .
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5 .
Fresh ;
not salt or brackish ;
as ,
sweet water . --
Bacon .
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6 .
Not changed from a sound or wholesome state .
Specifically :
(
a )
Not sour ;
as ,
sweet milk or bread .
(
b )
Not state ;
not putrescent or putrid ;
not rancid ;
as ,
sweet butter ;
sweet meat or fish .
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7 .
Plaesing to the mind ;
mild ;
gentle ;
calm ;
amiable ;
winning ;
presuasive ;
as ,
sweet manners .
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Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades ?
--
Job xxxviii .
31 .
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Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working . --
M .
Arnold .
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Note :
Sweet is often used in the formation of self -
explaining compounds ;
as ,
sweet -
blossomed ,
sweet -
featured ,
sweet -
smelling ,
sweet -
tempered ,
sweet -
toned ,
etc .
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{
Sweet alyssum }. (
Bot .)
See {
Alyssum }.
{
Sweet apple }. (
Bot .)
(
a )
Any apple of sweet flavor .
(
b )
See {
Sweet -
sop }.
{
Sweet bay }. (
Bot .)
(
a )
The laurel ({
Laurus nobilis }).
(
b )
Swamp sassafras .
{
Sweet calabash } (
Bot .),
a plant of the genus {
Passiflora }
({
Passiflora maliformis })
growing in the West Indies ,
and producing a roundish ,
edible fruit ,
the size of an apple .
{
Sweet cicely }. (
Bot .)
(
a )
Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus {
Osmorrhiza }
having aromatic roots and seeds ,
and white flowers . --
Gray .
(
b )
A plant of the genus {
Myrrhis } ({
Myrrhis odorata })
growing in England .
{
Sweet calamus },
or {
Sweet cane }. (
Bot .)
Same as {
Sweet flag },
below .
{
Sweet Cistus } (
Bot .),
an evergreen shrub ({
Cistus Ladanum })
from which the gum ladanum is obtained .
{
Sweet clover }. (
Bot .)
See {
Melilot }.
{
Sweet coltsfoot } (
Bot .),
a kind of butterbur ({
Petasites sagittata })
found in Western North America .
{
Sweet corn } (
Bot .),
a variety of the maize of a sweet taste .
See the Note under {
Corn }.
{
Sweet fern } (
Bot .),
a small North American shrub ({
Comptonia asplenifolia }
syn . {
Myrica asplenifolia })
having sweet -
scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves .
{
Sweet flag } (
Bot .),
an endogenous plant ({
Acorus Calamus })
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste .
It is found in wet places in Europe and America .
See {
Calamus },
2 .
{
Sweet gale } (
Bot .),
a shrub ({
Myrica Gale })
having bitter fragrant leaves ; --
also called {
sweet willow },
and {
Dutch myrtle }.
See 5th {
Gale }.
{
Sweet grass } (
Bot .),
holy ,
or Seneca ,
grass .
{
Sweet gum } (
Bot .),
an American tree ({
Liquidambar styraciflua }).
See {
Liquidambar }.
{
Sweet herbs },
fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes .
{
Sweet John } (
Bot .),
a variety of the sweet William .
{
Sweet leaf } (
Bot .),
horse sugar .
See under {
Horse }.
{
Sweet marjoram }. (
Bot .)
See {
Marjoram }.
{
Sweet marten } (
Zool .),
the pine marten .
{
Sweet maudlin } (
Bot .),
a composite plant ({
Achillea Ageratum })
allied to milfoil .
{
Sweet oil },
olive oil .
{
Sweet pea }. (
Bot .)
See under {
Pea }.
{
Sweet potato }. (
Bot .)
See under {
Potato }.
{
Sweet rush } (
Bot .),
sweet flag .
{
Sweet spirits of niter } (
Med .
Chem .)
See {
Spirit of nitrous ether },
under {
Spirit }.
{
Sweet sultan } (
Bot .),
an annual composite plant ({
Centaurea moschata }),
also ,
the yellow -
flowered ({
Centaurea odorata }); --
called also {
sultan flower }.
{
Sweet tooth },
an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats . [
Colloq .]
{
Sweet William }.
(
a ) (
Bot .)
A species of pink ({
Dianthus barbatus })
of many varieties .
(
b ) (
Zool .)
The willow warbler .
(
c ) (
Zool .)
The European goldfinch ; --
called also {
sweet Billy }. [
Prov .
Eng .]
{
Sweet willow } (
Bot .),
sweet gale .
{
Sweet wine }.
See {
Dry wine },
under {
Dry }.
{
To be sweet on },
to have a particular fondness for ,
or special interest in ,
as a young man for a young woman .
[
Colloq .] --
Thackeray .
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Syn :
Sugary ;
saccharine ;
dulcet ;
luscious .
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