Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any plant of a sweet taste.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any plant of a sweet taste.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
sweet -tastingplant .
Etymologies
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sweet + wort
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Examples
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Take of the fairest and lay them in sweetwort two or three days, then lay them in a broad preserving Pan of earth, and bake them, but let the
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If the brewer's yeast be flat and lifeless, it may be much improved by adding a pint of warm sweetwort to it instead of the milk-warm water.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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Bolcheretsk; and I was informed by our surgeons, that they attributed their speedy recovery principally to the effects of the sweetwort. [
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