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The act of making sweet.

A lover of mistress.

Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.

A sweet apple. Ascham.

Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.

In a sweet manner.

Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.

The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

Licorice.

A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.

A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.

The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.)

Any plant of a sweet taste.

Unwitting. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser. -- Un*weet"ing*ly, adv. [Obs.] Milton.

A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones. Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. Sir J. Davies.

To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] Bacon.

to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.