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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.