Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SWEET-EN, v.t. [swee'tn.]

1. To make sweet; as, to sweeten tea or coffee.
2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
3. To make mild or kind; as, to sweeten the temper.
4. To make less painful; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
5. To increase agreeable qualities; as, to sweeten the joys or pleasures of life.
6. To soften; to make delicate. Correggio has made his name immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shades. – Dryden.
7. To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
8. To make warm and fertile; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
9. To restore to purity; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.

SWEET-EN-ED, pp.

Made sweet, mild, or grateful.

SWEET-EN-ER, n.

He or that which sweetens; he that palliates; that which moderates acrimony.

SWEET-EN-ING, ppr.

Making sweet or grateful.

SWEET-FLAG, n.

A plant of the genus Acorns.

SWEET-GUM, n.

A tree of the genus Liquidambar.

SWEET-HEART, n.

A lover or mistress. – Shak.

SWEET-ING, n.

1. A sweet apple. – Ascham.
2. A word of endearment. – Shak.

SWEET-ISH, a.

Somewhat sweet or grateful to the taste. – Encyc.

SWEET-ISH-NESS, n.

The quality of being sweetish. Berkeley.

SWEET-JOHN'S, n.

A plant, a species of Dianthus.

SWEET-LY, adv.

In a sweet manner; gratefully; agreeably. He sweetly temper'd awe. – Dryden. No poet ever sweetly sung, / Unless he was, like Phœbus, young. – Swift.

SWEET-MAR-JO-RAM, n.

A very fragrant plant, of the of genus Origanum.

SWEET-MAUD'LIN, n.

A species of Achilles.

SWEET-MEAT, n. [sweet and meat.]

Fruit preserved with sugar; as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, and the like.

SWEET-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being sweet, in any of its senses; as, gratefulness to the taste; or to the smell, fragrance; agreeableness to the ear, melody; as, sweetness of the voice; sweetness of elocution. – Middleton.
2. Agreeableness of manners; softness; mildness; obliging civility; as, sweetness of behavior.
3. Softness; mildness; amiableness; as, sweetness of temper.

SWEET-PEA, n.

A pea cultivated for ornament, of the genus Lathyrus. – Cyc.

SWEET-ROOT, n.

The liquorice, or Glycyrrhiza.

SWEET-RUSH, n.

Another name of the sweet-flag, a species of Acorus.

SWEET-SCENT-ED, a. [sweet and scent.]

Having sweet smell; fragrant.

SWEET-SMELL-ING, a. [sweet and smell.]

Having sweet smell; fragrant.

SWEET-SOP, n.

A name of the Anona squamosa. – Lee.

SWEET-SUL'TAN, n.

A plant, a species of Centaurea.

SWEET-TEM-PER-ED, a.

Having a sweet disposition.

SWEET-TON-ED, a.

Having a sweet sound.