ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel,
damson, glucose; maple sirup † , maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai † , sorghum, taffy.
nectar; hydromel † , mead, meade † , metheglin † , honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine,
aperitif.
[sources of sugar] sugar cane, sugar beets.
[sweet foods] desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food)
298.
dulcification † , dulcoration † .
sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose; artificial
sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low.
V. be sweet &c adj.. render sweet &c adj.; sweeten; edulcorate † ; dulcorate † , dulcify † ;
candy; mull.
Adj. sweet; saccharine, sacchariferous † ; dulcet, candied, honied † , luscious, lush,
nectarious † , melliferous † ; sweetened &c v.. sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as
honey.
sickly sweet.
Phr. eau sucr_ee [Fr.]; sweets to the sweet [Hamlet].
397. Sourness -- N. sourness &c adj.; acid, acidity, low pH; acetous fermentation, lactic
fermentation.
vinegar, verjuice † , crab, alum; acetic acid, lactic acid.
V. be sour; sour, turn sour &c adj.; set the teeth on edge.
render sour &c adj.; acidify, acidulate.
Adj. sour; acid, acidulous, acidulated; tart, crabbed; acetous, acetose † ; acerb, acetic; sour
as vinegar, sourish, acescent † , subacid [Chem]; styptic, hard, rough.
Phr. sour as a lemon.
(4) Odor
398. Odor -- N. odor, smell, odorament † , scent, effluvium; emanation, exhalation; fume,
essence, trail, nidor † , redolence.
sense of smell; scent; act of smelling &c v.; olfaction, olfactories † .
[pleasant odor] fragrance &c 400.
odorant.
[animal with acute sense of smell] bloodhound, hound.
[smell detected by a hound] spoor.
V. have an odor &c n.; smell, smell of, smell strong of; exhale; give out a smell &c n.;
reek, reek of; scent.
smell, scent; snuff, snuff up; sniff, nose, inhale.
Adj. odorous, odoriferous; smelling, reeking, foul-smelling, strong-scented; redolent,
graveolent † , nidorous † , pungent; putrid, foul.
[Relating to the sense of smell] olfactory, quick-scented.
399. Inodorousness -- N. inodorousness † ; absence of smell, want of smell.