Word Meanings - HONEY-MOUTHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive. Shak.

Related words: (words related to HONEY-MOUTHED)

• 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.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• 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.
• SPEECHIFICATION
  The act of speechifying.
• 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.
• 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
• PERSUASIVE
  Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence. "Persuasive words." Milton.
• VISIBLE SPEECH
  A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
• 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.