Sweet
Definition of Sweet
| a. | 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. | | 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. | | 4. | Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. | | 5. | Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. | | 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.| Sweet calamus | | (Bot.) Same as Sweet flag, below. |
| Sweet pea | | (Bot.) See under Pea. |
| Sweet potato | | (Bot.) See under Potato. |
| Sweet rush | | (Bot.) sweet flag. |
| Sweet willow | | (Bot.) sweet gale. |
| | n. | 1. | That which is sweet to the taste; - used chiefly in the plural. | | 2. | That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume. | | 3. | That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life. | | 4. | One who is dear to another; a darling; - a term of endearment. | | adv. | 1. | Sweetly. | | v. t. | 1. | To sweeten. |
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