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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.
    The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
  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.
    A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful.
  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.
  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.
    Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
    — Job xxxviii. 31.
    Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working.

Phrases & Compounds
Sweet alyssum
See Alyssum.
Sweet apple
Any apple of sweet flavor.
Sweet bay
The laurel (Laurus nobilis).
Sweet calabash
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
Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers.
Sweet calamus
Same as Sweet flag, below.
Sweet Cistus
an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum) from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Sweet clover
See Melilot.
Sweet coltsfoot
a kind of butterbur (Petasites sagittata) found in Western North America.
Sweet corn
a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under Corn.
Sweet fern
a small North American shrub (Comptonia asplenifolia syn. Myrica asplenifolia) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
Sweet flag
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
a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and Dutch myrtle. See 5th Gale.
Sweet grass
holy, or Seneca, grass.
Sweet gum
an American tree (Liquidambar styraciflua). See Liquidambar.
Sweet herbs
fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes.
Sweet John
a variety of the sweet William.
Sweet leaf
horse sugar. See under Horse.
Sweet marjoram
See Marjoram.
Sweet marten
the pine marten.
Sweet maudlin
a composite plant (Achillea Ageratum) allied to milfoil.
Sweet oil
olive oil.
Sweet pea
See under Pea.
Sweet potato
See under Potato.
Sweet rush
sweet flag.
Sweet spirits of niter
See Spirit of nitrous ether, under Spirit.
Sweet sultan
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.
Sweet William
A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many varieties.
Sweet willow
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.

Sweet

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.
    A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet.
  4. One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.

Sweet

adv.
  1. Sweetly.

Sweet

v. t.
  1. To sweeten. [Obs.]