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A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart. Shak.

mentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; -- opposed to sweet wine, in which the saccharine matter is in excess.

A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n.,

A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3(a).

To make sweet; to soothe. [Obs.]

Sweetness. [Obs.] Bacon.

Sweet to the taste; luscious. [Obs.] She tempers dulcet creams. Milton.

A sweet-toned stop of an organ.

The act of dulcifying or sweetening. Boyle.

Sweetened; mollified. Dulcified spirit or spirits, a compound of alcohol with mineral acids; as, dulcified spirits of niter.

Flowing sweetly. [R.]

To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony. Wiseman.

A mistress; a sweetheart. I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head. Sterne.

Sweetness. [R.] Cockeram.

To sweeten; to make less acrimonious. [R.] Bacon.

The act of sweetening. [R.] Bacon.

A cathedral. See Dome, 2. Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet. Tennyson.

bronze leaf. -- Dutch liquid (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called also Dutch oil. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See…

ce or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. With records sweet of duties done. Keble. To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. Hallam. Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. C. J. Smith.…