Word Meanings - HONEY-TONGUED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
Related words: (words related to HONEY-TONGUED)
- 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