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ive in Arkansas and Texas. The berries are small, light-colored, with an acid skin and a sweet pulp.

bs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.

Gen. ii. 19. What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Shak.

A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.

Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant. "nectarean juice." Talfourd.

f the West Indian tree Chrysobalanus Icaco; -- also called cocoa plum. it is made into a sweet conserve which a largely exported from Cuba.

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

to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court. Pope. Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe. Poe.

A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufchâtel- en-Bray in France.

ray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song.

Shining; elegant; spruce. [Obs.] "O sweet, nitty youth." Marston.

applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods. H Sweet. -- n.

A cake, sweetmeat, or confectión made with almonds or other nuts.

few easy observances. Rogers. O I that wasted time to tend upon her, To compass her with sweet observances! Tennyson.

Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume. Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around. Spenser. To be in bad odor, to be out of favor, or in bad repute.

Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes. Milton. -- O`dor*if"er*ous*ly, adv. --O`dor*if"er*ous*ness, n.

Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling. "Odorous bloom." Keble. Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell. Spenser. -- O"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O"dor*ous*ness, n.

te crystalline substance, obtained from an exudation from the olive, and having a bitter-sweet taste and acid proporties. [Written also olivile.] Gregory.

That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. Landor.

Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.