5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. Bacon.

6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not

sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid;

not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.

7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning;

presuasive; as, sweet manners.

Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?

Job xxxviii. 31.

Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of

Christian working.

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