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aining some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.

A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East. Johnston.

Of or pertaining to a digraph. H. Sweet.

Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal. H. Sweet.

The act of changing into a diphthong. H. Sweet.

hong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel. "The diphthongized long vowels." H. Sweet.

The act of making dissimilar. H. Sweet.

ple vest, Than by the charming features of her face. Dryden. Milton has distinguished the sweetbrier and the eglantine. Nares.

Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.

Sweet; pleasant. [Obs.]

Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. Chesterfield.

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

A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart. Shak.

rmentation 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.