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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE.
     swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te,
     OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. saetr,
     soetr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for
     suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to
     sweeten. [root]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.]


     1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
        saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
        beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
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     2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
        sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
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              The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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     3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
        sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
        voice; a sweet singer.
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              To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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              A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.
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     4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
        as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
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              Sweet interchange
              Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
                                                    --Milton.
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     5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.
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     6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
        (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
        (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
            sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
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     7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
        winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
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              Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
                                                    --Job xxxviii.
                                                    31.
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              Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
              established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.
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     Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
           compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
           sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
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     {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}.
  
     {Sweet apple}. (Bot.)
        (a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
        (b) See {Sweet-sop}.
  
     {Sweet bay}. (Bot.)
        (a) The laurel ({Laurus nobilis}).
        (b) Swamp sassafras.
  
     {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora}
        ({Passiflora 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} ({Myrrhis 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
        asplenifolia} syn. {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 ({Liquidambar
        styraciflua}). 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} (Zool.), 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 ({Centaurea
        moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({Centaurea
        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) (Zool.) The willow warbler.
        (c) (Zool.) 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.
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     Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
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