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

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

The act of sweetening. [R.] Bacon.

Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.

To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity. Succory . . . edulcorated with sugar and vinegar. Evelyn.

The act of sweetening or edulcorating.

A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.

A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor. Grog blossom, a redness on the nose or face of persons who drink ardent spirits to excess. [Collog.]

To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey. Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech Marston.

Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.

aste, the dried or inspissated jelly of the jujube; also, a confection made of gum arabic sweetened.

is, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss. Tennyson. Kissing comfit, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. [Obs or Prov. End.] Shak.

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

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

luent for solids and liquids. Used as a food additive for anti-caking properties, or as a sweetener. Also used to "cut" (dilute) illegal drugs such as cocaine or heroin. ("excipient" use)

A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process.

To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine. New cider, mulled with ginger warm. Gay.

To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten. [Obs.] Cockeram.

ontempt. See Bah. Fie! fie! fie! pah! pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. Shak.

Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored. [Written also panado.]