sweet-dip

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• Dip

  ·vi To dip snuff. II. Dip ·noun A dipped candle. III. Dip ·vt To plunge or engage thoroughly in an...

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• dip

  To dip for a wig. Formerly, in Middle Row, Holborn, wigs of different sorts were, it is said, put in...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dip

  butter, sugar, and verjuice, used as sauce to pudding, and particularly to barm dumplins. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• dip

  The inclination of the magnetic needle towards the earth. (See dipping-needle.) Also, the smallest c...

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• Sweet

  ·adv <<Sweetly>>. II. Sweet ·vt To <<Sweeten>>. III. Sweet ·noun Confectionery, sweetmeats, preser...

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• sweet

  Easy to be imposed on, or taken in; also expert, dexterous clever. Sweet's your hand; said of one de...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to dip snuff

  A mode of taking tobacco, practised by women in some parts of the United States, and particularly at...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• dip, to

  To lower. An object is said to be dipping when by refraction it is visible just above the horizon. A...

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• dip-sector

  An ingenious instrument for measuring the true dip of the horizon, invented by Dr. Wollaston, and ve...

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• purser's dip

  The smallest dip-candle. ...

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• Honey-sweet

  ·adj Sweet as honey. ...

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• Sweet-breasted

  ·adj Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. ·cf. <<Breast>>, ·noun, 6. ...

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• Sweet-scented

  ·adj Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. ...

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• Sweet-sop

  ·noun A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). ·see under <<Custard>>. ...

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• sweet heart

  A term applicable to either the masculine or feminine gender, signifying a girl's lover, or a man's ...

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• sweet plum

  See plum, burdekin ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• plum, sweet

  n. a wild fruit, Oweniavenosa, F. v. M., N.O. Meliaceae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sweet tea

  See tea. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sweet-tea

  or Botany-Bay tea, or Australian tea. (Called also Native Sarsaparilla.See Sarsaparilla.) A plant, ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sweet oil

  The common name for olive oil. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• sweet tooth

  A person who is fond of sweet things is said to have a sweet tooth in his head. And so in England.--...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Sweet Apple Court

  West out of Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Hatton, I708-O.S. 1880). Before its rebuildin...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• dip of the horizon

  The angle contained between the sensible and apparent horizons, the angular point being the eye of t...

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