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A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. How Faery Mab the junkets eat. Milton. Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. Chapman.

Sweetmeats. [Obs.]

of heaven, and the goddess who presided over marriage. She corresponds to the Greek Hera. Sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes. Shak.

c of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. [Obs.] Chaucer. It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste. Holland.

To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees. Shak.

A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored with caraway seeds.

uiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. eccl. v. 12.

A rich, sweet, red Neapolitan wine.

n milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin.

A lad; a male sweetheart. [Scot.]

om the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart. The soldier here his wasted store supplies, And takes new valor from his lady's eyes. Waller.

A sweetheart or mistress.

A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.

rrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i. The act of laughter, which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves. Sir T. Browne. Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with la…

ate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.

o the brow of the hill. Luke iv. 29. In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. Milton.

ther are unnatural. L'Estrange. Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides. H. Sweet.

A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. Shak.

num or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.

A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.