Meaning

Any of a variety of sweet-tasting plants..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any of a variety of sweet-tasting plants.
2. An fermented beverage made from malt.
3. A sugar-rich liquid, as that used in fermentation.

Example Sentences

[…] then boil the buds or bark of elder, sweetwort and green brier leaves

As spring opened, they began to find a plant just showing above the ground; it resembled asparagus, and for some reason they called it " Mashka's sweetwort," though it was very bitter

Sweetwort, Acorus calamus

the hay from upland meadows, with its larger variety of plants, predominantly origanum, a modest plant with pink and white flowers. It is this sweetwort that makes the aroma of hay mown and dried in fine weather exceptionally spicy and exhilarating.

It is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine.

In Alcoholic fermentation yeast is added to some saccharine fluid—such as the "sweetwort" or infusion of malt used in the preparation of beer.

Barley-sugar. A preparation of sugar made in long yellow sticks, which were flavoured originally with sweetwort, or extract of malt, but now flavoured with lemon.

Neither the juice of the beetroot nor the sap of the sugar-cane consists entirely of pure sugar dissolved in pure water. They both contain other constituents common to vegetable juices, and some peculiar to themselves. These mucilaginous matters, when roughly separated, carry down with them some sugar, and form a sort of sweetwort, capable by skilful treatment of producing a rich caramel well suited for mixing with coffee.

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• sweetworts

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