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

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

That which sweetens.

To deprive of sweetness. [R.] Bp. Richardson.

To surpass in sweetness. [R.] Shak.

To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] Bacon.

A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.

glass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.

A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.

Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.]

A comfit; a confection. [Obs.] At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects. Harvey.

A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur.

A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona (A. squamosa, reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastr…

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

The act of dulcifying or sweetening. Boyle.

Sweetened; mollified. Dulcified spirit or spirits, a compound of alcohol with mineral acids; as, dulcified spirits of niter.