قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.

Sweetly.

To sweeten.

Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.

Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant.

A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.

Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.

The pancreas.

A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.

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

To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.

To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.

To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.

To soften to the eye; to make delicate.

To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.

To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.

To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.

To become sweet.

of Sweeten

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