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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.

A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia.

Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.

Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, a triweekly newspaper. -- adv.

An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.

Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.

A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.

oax; to allure. A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. Addison.

ically alike; -- a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini."

See Twill.

Same as Tuyère.