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sweeter 音标拼音: [sw'itɚ] 全景分析器 全景分析器 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. [ 1913 Webster] The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] To make his English sweet upon his tongue. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. -- Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. [ 1913 Webster] Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. [ 1913 Webster] Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades? -- Job xxxviii. 31. [ 1913 Webster] Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. -- M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self- explaining compounds; as, sweet- blossomed, sweet- featured, sweet- smelling, sweet- tempered, sweet- toned, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious. [ 1913 Webster]
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