Dibs: alternatives and connections

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east s…

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and w…

A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstra…

A mixture composed of unfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines.

A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch,…

The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yell…

The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berr…

See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.

The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up…

A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox.

A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkwee…

The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, vi…

The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before fermentation.

One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animal…

An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice,…