Word Meanings - HONEY-SWEET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sweet as honey. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to HONEY-SWEET)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• HONEYED
  1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• HONEYWORT
  A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• HONEYSUCKLE
  One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• HONEYWARE
  See BADDERLOCKS
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• HONEY
  G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. håning, Dan. honning, 1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. 2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. The
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• SWEETWORT
  Any plant of a sweet taste.
• HONEY-SWEET
  Sweet as honey. Chaucer.
• HONEY-BAG
  The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.
• HONEYSTONE
  See MELLITE
• SWEETWEED
  A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
• SWEETHEARTING
  Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.
• BITTERSWEET
  Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.