KJV Dictionary Definition: sweet

sweet

SWEET, a. L. suavis.

1. Agreeable or grateful to the taste; as, sugar or honey is sweet.

2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; as a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. Ex.26.

3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice.

4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; as a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion; a sweet form.

5. Fresh; not salt; as sweet water.

6. Not sour; as sweet fruits; sweet oranges.

7. Mild; soft; gentle.

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?

Job 38.

8. Mild; soft; kind; obliging; as sweet manners.

9. Grateful; pleasing.

Sweet interchange of hill and valley.

10. Making soft or excellent music; as a sweet singer.

11. Not stale; as sweet butter. The bread is sweet.

12. Not turned; not sour; as sweet milk.

13. Not putrescent or putrid; as, the meat is sweet.

SWEET, n. Something pleasing or grateful to the mind; as the sweets of domestic life.

A little bitter mingled in our cup, leaves no relish of the sweet.

1. A sweet substance; particularly, any vegetable juice which is added to wines to improve them.

2. A perfume.

3. A word of endearment.

4. Cane juice, melasses,or other sweet vegetable substance.

sweeting

SWEE'TING, n. A sweet apple.

1. A word of endearment.

sweetness

SWEE'TNESS, n. The quality of being sweet, in any of its senses; as gratefulness to the taste; or to the smell,fragrance; agreeableness to the ear, melody; as sweetness of the voice; sweetness of elocution.

1. Agreeableness of manners; softness; mildness; obliging civility; as sweetness of behavior.

2. Softness; mildness; amiableness; as sweetness of temper.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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