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Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • SPEAKERSHIP
    The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
  • SPEAKER
    1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
  • 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.
  • SEDUCTIVELY
    In a seductive manner.
  • 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.
  • SWEET-SCENTED
    Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. Sweet-scented shrub , a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.
  • SWEET-BREASTED
    Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.
  • BESPEAKER
    One who bespeaks.
  • OUTSPEAK
    1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
  • UNBESPEAK
    To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
  • FORSPEAK
    1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
  • 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.
  • FORESPEAKING
    A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.
  • UNSPEAK
    To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak.
  • BESPEAK
    besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was

 

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