Sweeten :: Sweetening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweete.
Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea..
Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship..
Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper..
Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life..
Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air..
Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils..
Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat..
Sweetened :: Sweetbrier (n.) A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
Sweetmeat :: Sweetmeat (n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection..
Sweetmeat :: Sweetmeat (n.) The paint used in making patent leather.
Sweetness :: Sweetmeat (n.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
Sweetroot :: Sweetness (n.) The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
Sweetwater :: Sweet-sop (n.) A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.
Sweetweed :: Sweetwater (n.) A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine..
Sweetwood :: Sweetweed (n.) A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family..
Sweetwood :: Sweetwood (n.) The true laurel (Laurus nobilis..
Sweetwort :: Sweetwood (n.) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees..