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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SWEET, a. [L. suavis.]
1. Agreeable or grateful to the taste; as, sugar or honey is sweet.
2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; as a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. Exodus 26.
3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice.
4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; as a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion; a sweet form.
5. Fresh; not salt; as sweet water.
6. Not sour; as sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
7. Mild; soft; gentle.
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?
Job 38.
8. Mild; soft; kind; obliging; as sweet manners.
9. Grateful; pleasing.
Sweet interchange of hill and valley.
10. Making soft or excellent music; as a sweet singer.
11. Not stale; as sweet butter. The bread is sweet.
12. Not turned; not sour; as sweet milk.
13. Not putrescent or putrid; as, the meat is sweet.
SWEET, n. Something pleasing or grateful to the mind; as the sweets of domestic life.
A little bitter mingled in our cup, leaves no relish of the sweet.
1. A sweet substance; particularly, any vegetable juice which is added to wines to improve them.
2. A perfume.
3. A word of endearment.
4. Cane juice, melasses,or other sweet vegetable substance.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar [ant: sour]
2: having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition" [syn: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet]
3: pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet]
4: pleasing to the senses; "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child"
5: pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge" [syn: gratifying, sweet]
6: having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers" [syn: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling]
7: (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content; "sweet dessert wines" [ant: dry]
8: not containing or composed of salt water; "fresh water" [syn: fresh, sweet] [ant: salty]
9: not soured or preserved; "sweet milk" [syn: fresh, sweet, unfermented]
10: with sweetening added [syn: sugared, sweetened, sweet, sweet-flavored] n
1: English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912) [syn: Sweet, Henry Sweet]
2: a dish served as the last course of a meal [syn: dessert, sweet, afters]
3: a food rich in sugar [syn: sweet, confection]
4: the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth [syn: sweet, sweetness, sugariness]
5: the property of tasting as if it contains sugar [syn: sweetness, sweet] adv
1: in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other" [syn: sweetly, sweet]

Merriam Webster's

biographical name Henry 1845-1912 English phonetician

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English swete, from Old English sw?te; akin to Old High German suozi sweet, Latin suad?re to urge, suavis sweet, Greek h?dys Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) pleasing to the taste (2) being or inducing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is typically induced by disaccharides and is mediated especially by receptors in taste buds at the front of the tongue — compare bitter, salt, sour b. (1) of a beverage containing a sweetening ingredient ; not dry (2) of wine retaining a portion of natural sugar 2. a. pleasing to the mind or feelings ; agreeable, gratifying — often used as a generalized term of approval <how sweet it is> b. marked by gentle good humor or kindliness <a sweet disposition> c. fragrant <a sweet aroma> d. (1) delicately pleasing to the ear or eye <a sweet melody> (2) played in a straightforward melodic style <sweet jazz> e. saccharine, cloying f. very good or appealing <a sweet job offer> <a sweet sports car> 3. much loved ; dear 4. a. not sour, rancid, decaying, or stale ; wholesome <sweet milk> b. not salt or salted ; fresh <sweet water> <sweet butter> c. free from excessive acidity — used especially of soil d. free from noxious gases and odors e. free from excess of acid, sulfur, or corrosive salts <sweet crude oil> 5. skillful, proficient <a sweet golf swing> 6. — used as an intensive <take your own sweet time> • sweetly adverb • sweetness noun II. adverb Date: 13th century in a sweet manner III. noun Date: 14th century 1. something that is sweet to the taste: as a. a food (as a candy or preserve) having a high sugar content <fill up on sweets> b. British dessert c. British hard candy 2. a sweet taste sensation 3. a pleasant or gratifying experience, possession, or state 4. darling, sweetheart 5. a. archaic fragrance b. plural, archaic things having a sweet smell

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 having the pleasant taste characteristic of sugar. 2 smelling pleasant like roses or perfume etc.; fragrant. 3 (of sound etc.) melodious or harmonious. 4 a not salt, sour, or bitter. b fresh, with flavour unimpaired by rottenness. c (of water) fresh and readily drinkable. 5 (of wine) having a sweet taste (opp. DRY). 6 highly gratifying or attractive. 7 amiable, pleasant (has a sweet nature). 8 colloq. (of a person or thing) pretty, charming, endearing. 9 (foll. by on) colloq. fond of; in love with. --n. 1 Brit. a small shaped piece of confectionery usu. made with sugar or sweet chocolate. 2 Brit. a sweet dish forming a course of a meal. 3 a sweet part of something; sweetness. 4 (in pl.) delights, gratification. 5 (esp. as a form of address) sweetheart etc. Phrases and idioms: she's sweet Austral. sl. all is well. sweet-and-sour cooked in a sauce containing sugar and vinegar or lemon etc. sweet basil see BASIL. sweet bay = BAY(2). sweet-brier see BRIER(1). sweet chestnut see CHESTNUT. sweet cicely a white-flowered aromatic plant, Myrrhis odorata. sweet corn 1 a kind of maize with kernels having a high sugar content. 2 these kernels, eaten as a vegetable when young. sweet flag = sweet rush. sweet-gale see GALE(2). sweet pea any climbing plant of the genus Lathyrus, esp. L. odoratus with fragrant flowers in many colours. sweet pepper see PEPPER. sweet potato 1 a tropical climbing plant, Ipomoea batatas, with sweet tuberous roots used for food. 2 the root of this. sweet rocket see ROCKET(2). sweet rush (or sedge) a kind of sedge with a thick creeping aromatic rootstock used in medicine and confectionery. sweet sultan a sweet-scented plant, Centaurea moschata or C. suaveoleus. sweet talk colloq. flattery, blandishment. sweet-talk v.tr. colloq. flatter in order to persuade. sweet-tempered amiable. sweet tooth a liking for sweet-tasting things. sweet violet a sweet-scented violet, Viola odorata. sweet william a plant, Dianthus barbatus, with clusters of vivid fragrant flowers. Derivatives: sweetish adj. sweetly adv. Etymology: OE swete f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Verbena Ver*be"na, n. [L. See Vervain.] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain. Note: Verbena, or vervain, was used by the Greeks, the Romans, and the Druids, in their sacred rites. --Brewer. Essence of verbena, Oil of verbena, a perfume prepared from the lemon verbena; also, a similar perfume properly called grass oil. See Grass oil, under Grass. Lemon, or Sweet, verbena, a shrubby verbenaceous plant (Lippia citriodora), with narrow leaves which exhale a pleasant, lemonlike fragrance when crushed.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sweet Sweet, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te, OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[ae]tr, s[oe]tr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]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. 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. --Longfellow. 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. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. --Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne. 4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. --Milton. 5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon. 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. 7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades? --Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold. Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum. Sweet apple. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor. (b) See Sweet-top. Sweet bay. (Bot.) (a) The laurel (laurus nobilis). (b) Swamp sassafras. Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora (P. 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 (M. 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, or 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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 (C. 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) (Zo["o]l.) The willow warbler. (c) (Zo["o]l.) 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. Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sweet Sweet, adv. Sweetly. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sweet Sweet, v. t. To sweeten. [Obs.] --Udall.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sweet Sweet, n. 1. That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural. Specifically: (a) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc. (b) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc. 2. That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume. ``A wilderness of sweets.'' --Milton. 3. That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life. A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet. --Locke. 4. One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment. ``Wherefore frowns my sweet?'' --B. Jonson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sweeter, sweetest, sweets) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Sweet food and drink contains a lot of sugar. ...a mug of sweet tea... If the sauce seems too sweet, add a dash of red wine vinegar. ADJ • sweetness Florida oranges have a natural sweetness. 2. Sweets are small sweet things such as toffees, chocolates, and mints. (BRIT; in AM, use candy) N-COUNT 3. A sweet is something sweet, such as fruit or a pudding, that you eat at the end of a meal, especially in a restaurant. (BRIT; in AM, use dessert) The sweet was a mousse flavoured with whisky. = dessert N-VAR 4. A sweet smell is a pleasant one, for example the smell of a flower. She'd baked some bread which made the air smell sweet. ADJ 5. If you describe something such as air or water as sweet, you mean that it smells or tastes pleasantly fresh and clean. I gulped a breath of sweet air. ADJ 6. A sweet sound is pleasant, smooth, and gentle. Her voice was as soft and sweet as a young girl's. ...the sweet sounds of Mozart. ADJ • sweetly He sang much more sweetly than he has before. ADV: usu ADV with v 7. If you describe something as sweet, you mean that it gives you great pleasure and satisfaction. (WRITTEN) There are few things quite as sweet as revenge. ? bitter ADJ 8. If you describe someone as sweet, you mean that they are pleasant, kind, and gentle towards other people. How sweet of you to think of me! ADJ • sweetly I just smiled sweetly and said no. ADV: usu ADV with v 9. If you describe a small person or thing as sweet, you mean that they are attractive in a simple or unsophisticated way. (INFORMAL) ...a sweet little baby girl... The house was really sweet. = cute ADJ 10. see also sweetly, sweetness 11. a sweet tooth: see tooth

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Sugary, honeyed, saccharine, luscious. 2. Redolent, fragrant, balmy. 3. Soft, melodious, harmonious, mellifluous, dulcet, musical, mellow, tuneful, silvery, silver-toned. 4. Beautiful, fair, lovely. 5. Delightful, agreeable, pleasant, charming, grateful, gratifying. 6. Mild, gentle, engaging, winning, attractive, amiable, lovable. 7. Mild, soft, gentle, benignant, serene. 8. Fresh. 9. Wholesome, sound. 10. Pure, fresh, clean. II. n. 1. Sweetness, sweetest part. 2. Perfume, fragrance, redolence. 3. Dear, darling. 4. Joy, blessing, enjoyment.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Easy to be imposed on, or taken in; also expert, dexterous clever. Sweet's your hand; said of one dexterous at stealing.

Moby Thesaurus

Jell-O, accommodating, achingly sweet, admirable, adorable, affable, aftertaste, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, angel, angelic, appealing, ariose, arioso, aromatic, attentive, attractive, babe, baby, baby-doll, balanced, balmy, beautiful, bell-like, beloved, bitter, bittersweet, blancmange, bleached, blissful, bonhomous, bright, buttercup, candied, candy, canorous, cantabile, caressable, catchy, charming, cheerful, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chocolate, clean, cleanly, cloying, cloyingness, comfit, compassionate, compatible, complaisant, compote, concinnate, concinnous, confection, confectionery, confiture, congenial, conserve, considerate, cordial, creamy, cuddlesome, cute, dainty, darling, dear, deary, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, desirable, dessert, devoted to, dirt-free, doll, duck, duckling, dulcet, dulcitude, easy, easy-natured, easygoing, eggshell, en rapport, enamored of, engaging, enjoyable, essenced, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, euphonous, fair, fair and pleasant, fastidious, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-toned, flat, flavor, flowery, flowing, fluent, fond of, fragrant, fresh, friendly, frosting, fruity, gelatin, generous, genial, gentle, glaze, gloss, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, gone on, good, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, great, gushing, gushy, gust, harmonious, heart-warming, heavenly, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, honeyed, honeysweet, icing, icky, immaculate, incense-breathing, infatuated with, iridescent, jam, jelly, keen on, kind, kissable, kosher, lamb, lambkin, light, likable, lovable, love, lovely, lover, lovesome, luscious, lyric, marmalade, maudlin, mawkishness, measured, melic, melliferous, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, meringue, mild, mother-of-pearl, mousse, music-flowing, music-like, musical, musky, nacreous, nectareous, nectarous, nice, nonpolluted, nuts about, odorate, odoriferous, odorous, of cleanly habits, opalescent, ordered, orderly, oversweetness, palate, pale, pastel, patinaed, pearly, perfumed, perfumy, pet, petkins, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, precious, precious heart, preserve, pretty, prized, pudding, pure, quiet, redolent, relish, rewarding, rich, ritually pure, sacchariferous, saccharine, saccharinity, sad, salt, sapidity, sapor, satisfying, savor, savoriness, savory, scented, semigloss, sentimental, seraphic, shiny, sickening, sickly-sweetness, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, simple, singable, sloppy, smack, smooth, smooth-sounding, smut-free, smutless, snookums, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, solicitous, somber, songful, songlike, sonorous, soppy, sour, sour-sweet, spicy, splendid, spotless, stainless, sticky, stomach, stuck on, subdued, subtle, sugar, sugarcoated, sugared, sugariness, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet and pungent, sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweet on, sweet stuff, sweet-flowing, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet-sounding, sweet-tempered, sweetened, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetish, sweetishness, sweetkins, sweetmeat, sweetness, sweets, symmetrical, sympathetic, syrupiness, syrupy, tahar, taken with, tang, taste, tender, thoughtful, thuriferous, tongue, tooth, treasured, tripping, tubbed, tunable, tuneful, turtledove, tutti-frutti, unadulterated, unassuming, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, warm, welcome, well-natured, well-scrubbed, well-washed, whipped cream, white, whitened, winning, winsome, wonderful