Word Meanings - SWEETISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.

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• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• SWEET-SOP
  A kind of custard apple . See under Custard.
• SWEETWATER
  A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
• SWEET
  swote, sote, AS. swete; akin to OFries. swete, OS. swoti, D. zoet, G. süss, OHG. suozi, Icel. sætr, soetr, Sw. söt, Dan. söd, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. svadu sweet, svad, svad, to sweeten. 1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor
• SWEET-SCENTED
  Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. Sweet-scented shrub , a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.
• SWEET-BREASTED
  Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.
• SWEETBRIER
  A kind of rose with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
• SWEETBREAD
  The pancreas. (more info) 1. 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
• SWEETMEAT
  A boat shell of the American coast. (more info) 1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection. 2. The paint used in making patent leather.
• BITTERSWEET
  Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.
• HONEY-SWEET
  Sweet as honey. Chaucer.
• DISSWEETEN
  To deprive of sweetness. Bp. Richardson.