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- English Word Sweeten Definition To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To become sweet.
- English Word Sweetened Definition of Sweeten
- English Word Sweetener Definition One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.
- English Word Sweetening Definition of Sweeten
- English Word Sweetening Definition The act of making sweet.
- English Word Sweetening Definition That which sweetens.
- English Word Sweetheart Definition A lover of mistress.
- English Word Sweethearting Definition Making love.
- English Word Sweeting Definition A sweet apple.
- English Word Sweeting Definition A darling; -- a word of endearment.
- English Word Sweetish Definition Somewhat sweet.
- English Word Sweetly Definition In a sweet manner.
- English Word Sweetmeat Definition Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
- English Word Sweetmeat Definition The paint used in making patent leather.
- English Word Sweetmeat Definition A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
- English Word Sweetness Definition The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
- English Word Sweetroot Definition Licorice.
- English Word Sweetwater Definition A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
- English Word Sweetweed Definition A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
- English Word Sweetwood Definition The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.)
- English Word Sweetwood Definition The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.
- English Word Sweetwort Definition Any plant of a sweet taste.
- English Word Sweigh Definition Sway; movement.
- English Word Sweinmote Definition See Swainmote.
- English Word Swell Definition To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
- English Word Swell Definition To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.