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Sweet alyssum . (Bot.) See Alyssum. — Sweet apple. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor. (b)
See Sweet-top. — Sweet bay. (Bot.) (a) The laurel (b) Swamp sassafras. — Sweet calabash
(Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora (P. maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish,
edible fruit, the size of an apple. — Sweet cicely. (Bot.) (a) Either of the North American plants of
the umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. Gray. (b)
A plant of the genus Myrrhis (M. odorata) growing in England. — Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane.
(Bot.) Same as Sweet flag, below. — Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum)
from which the gum ladanum is obtained. — Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot. — Sweet coltsfoot
(Bot.), a kind of butterbur (Petasites sagittata) found in Western North America. — Sweet corn (Bot.),
a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under Corn. — Sweet fern (Bot.), a small
North American shrub (Comptonia, or Myrica, asplenifolia) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves
resembling fern leaves. — Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (Acorus Calamus) having long
flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America.
See Calamus, 2. — Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter fragrant leaves; — also
called sweet willow, and Dutch myrtle. See 5th Gale. — Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
— Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree See Liquidambar. — Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated
for culinary purposes. — Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William. — Sweet leaf (Bot.),
horse sugar. See under Horse. — Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram. — Sweet marten (Zoöl.),
the pine marten. — Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant (Achillea Ageratum) allied to milfoil. —
Sweet oil, olive oil. — Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea. — Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under
Potato. — Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag. — Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See Spirit of
nitrous ether, under Spirit. — Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant also, the yellow-flowered
(C. odorata); — called also sultan flower. — Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
sweetmeats. [Colloq.] — Sweet William. (a) (Bot.) A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many
varieties. (b) (Zoöl.) The willow warbler. (c) (Zoöl.) The European goldfinch; — called also sweet Billy.
[Prov. Eng.] — Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale. — Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry. —
To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young
woman. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
Syn. — Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
Sweet
(Sweet) n.
1. That which is sweet to the taste; — used chiefly in the plural. Specifically: (a) Confectionery, sweetmeats,
preserves, etc. (b) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
2. That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume. "A wilderness of sweets." Milton.
3. That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.
A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet. Locke. 4. One who is dear to another; a darling; — a term of endearment. "Wherefore frowns my sweet?" B.
Jonson.
Sweet
(Sweet), adv. Sweetly. Shak.
Sweet
(Sweet), v. t. To sweeten. [Obs.] Udall.
Sweetbread
(Sweet"bread`) n.
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 Thymus.
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