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8 words match “DULCE”

DULCE v.
To make sweet; to soothe. [Obs.]
DULCENESS n.
Sweetness. [Obs.] Bacon.
DULCET a. 2 definitions
Sweet to the taste; luscious. [Obs.] She tempers dulcet creams. Milton.
ADDULCE v.
To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] Bacon.
DULCINESS n.
See Dulceness. [Obs.]
FENNEL n.
smelling bottle of the tender sex. S. G. Goodrich. Azorean, or Sweet, fennel, (Fæniculum dulce). It is a smaller and stouter plant than the common fennel, and is used as a pot herb. -- Dog's fennel (Anthemis Cotula), a foul-smelling European weed; -- called also mayweed. -- Fennel flower (Bot.), an herb (Nigella) of…
FINOCHIO n.
An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.
PRESS v.
s of; to squeeze out, or express, from something. From sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams. Milton. And I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. Gen. xl. 11.