2. (Anat.) The pancreas.
Sweet-breasted
(Sweet"-breast`ed) a. Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast,
n., 6. [Obs.]
Sweetbrier
(Sweet"bri`er) n. (Bot.) A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant
foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
Sweeten
(Sweet"en) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sweetened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweetening.] [See Sweet, a.]
1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
4. To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life. Dryden.
And sweeten every secret tear.
Keble. 5. To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening
his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other.
Dryden. 6. To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that
have been infected; to sweeten the air.
7. To make warm and fertile; — opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
8. To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
Sweeten
(Sweet"en), v. i. To become sweet. Bacon.
Sweetener
(Sweet"en*er) n. One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates
acrimony.
Sweetening
(Sweet"en*ing), n.
1. The act of making sweet.
2. That which sweetens.
Sweetheart
(Sweet"heart`) n. A lover of mistress.
Sweethearting
(Sweet"heart`ing), n. Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.
Sweeting
(Sweet"ing), n.
1. A sweet apple. Ascham.
2. A darling; — a word of endearment. Shak.
Sweetish
(Sweet"ish) a. Somewhat sweet. — Sweet"ish*ness, n.
Sweetly
(Sweet"ly), adv. [AS. swetlice.] In a sweet manner.
Sweetmeat
(Sweet"meat`) n.
