Word Meanings - SWEETING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.

Related words: (words related to SWEETING)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• DARLINGTONIA
  A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 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
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• SWEETWORT
  Any plant of a sweet taste.
• APPLE
  Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree. 3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple , balsam apple, egg apple, oak
• DARLING
  One dearly beloved; a favorite. And can do naught but wail her darling's loss. Shak.
• APPLE-JOHN
  A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.
• SWEETWEED
  A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
• SWEETHEARTING
  Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.
• SWEET-SOP
  A kind of custard apple . See under Custard.
• APPLE-SQUIRE
  A pimp; a kept gallant. Beau. & Fl.
• SWEETWATER
  A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
• SWEET
  swote, sote, AS. swete; akin to OFries. swete, OS. swoti, D. zoet, G. süss, OHG. suozi, Icel. sætr, soetr, Sw. söt, Dan. söd, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. svadu sweet, svad, svad, to sweeten. 1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor
• ENDEARMENT
  The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection. "The great endearments of prudent and temperate speech." Jer. Taylor. Her first endearments twining round the soul. Thomson.
• PINEAPPLE
  A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• ENGRAPPLE
  To grapple.
• THRAPPLE
  Windpipe; throttle.
• INGRAPPLE
  To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.
• CHESS-APPLE
  The wild service of Europe .
• CRAPPLE
  A claw.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• BITTERSWEET
  Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.
• HONEY-SWEET
  Sweet as honey. Chaucer.