SPage 1031
- English Word Sweet-breasted Definition Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.
- English Word Sweet-scented Definition Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant.
- English Word Sweet-sop Definition A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.
- English Word Sweetbread Definition Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
- English Word Sweetbread Definition The pancreas.
- English Word Sweetbrier Definition A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
- 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.