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e taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.

Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6. [Obs.]

Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. Sweet-scented shrub (Bot.), a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.

A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.

Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, or throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.

f rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.

To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.

The act of making sweet.

A lover of mistress.

Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.

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.)