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Sweetbread
n.
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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.
Sweetbread
n.
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The pancreas.
Sweet-breasted
a.
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Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.
Sweetbrier
n.
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A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
Sweetened
imp. & p. p.
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of Sweeten
Sweetening
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Sweeten
a.
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To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
Sweeten
a.
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To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
Sweeten
a.
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To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
Sweeten
a.
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To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
Sweeten
a.
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To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
Sweeten
a.
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To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
Sweeten
a.
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To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
Sweeten
a.
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To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
Sweeten
v. i.
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To become sweet.
Sweetener
n.
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One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.
Sweetening
n.
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The act of making sweet.
Sweetening
n.
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That which sweetens.
Sweetheart
n.
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A lover of mistress.
Sweethearting
n.
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Making love.
Sweeting
n.
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A sweet apple.
Sweeting
n.
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A darling; -- a word of endearment.
Sweetish
a.
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Somewhat sweet.
Sweetly
adv.
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In a sweet manner.
Sweetmeat
n.
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Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
Sweetmeat
n.
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The paint used in making patent leather.
Sweetmeat
n.
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A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
Sweetness
n.
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The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
Sweetroot
n.
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Licorice.
Sweet-scented
a.
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Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant.