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An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. Some delicious landscape. Coleridge. One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble. Were not his words delicious Tennyson.

ght state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy. Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Shak. A fool hath no delight in understanding. Prov. xviii. 2.

Actively; quickly; nimbly. [Obs.] Swim with your bodies, And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl.

A young woman; a wench. [Obs.] Sweet doxies and dells. B. Jonson.

o a desert place. Luke ix. 10. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray. Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place. -- Desert hare (Zoöl.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var. Arizonæ) i…

A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner. "An 't please your honor," quoth the peasant, "This same dessert is not so pleasant." Pope. Dessert spoon, a spoon used in eating dessert; a spoon intermediate in size between a…

ocalize it, we obtain a hiss which is quite distinct enough to stand for a weak (jh). H. Sweet.

rine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal. Diabetes mellitus Etym: [NL., sweet diabetes], that form of diabetes in which the urine contains saccharine matter. -- Diabetes insipidus Etym: [NL., lit., diabetes], the form of diabetes in which the urine contains no abnormal constituent.

ining 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.

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

The act of making dissimilar. H. Sweet.

le 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.