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A lover of mistress.

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

A pastoral sweetheart. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Milton.

was chaffing him. Thackeray. A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts. C. Kingsley.

The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Brewer.

A dear one; lover; sweetheart. That kiss I carried from thee, dear. Shak.

A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart. Shak.

A mistress; a sweetheart. I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head. Sterne.

ally of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.

A fair woman; a sweetheart. I have found out a gift for my fair. Shenstone.

A person beloved; a sweetheart. Thackeray.

A sweetheart; a beau. [Colloq.] A. Trollope.

A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. "Each Jack with his Gill." B. Jonson.

A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle. [Obs.] Toone.

A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill. Beau. & Fl.

A sweetheart; a darling. [Scot.] Burns.

A lad; a male sweetheart. [Scot.]

om the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart. The soldier here his wasted store supplies, And takes new valor from his lady's eyes. Waller.

A sweetheart or mistress.

A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.