(stress variable), a. Having a sweet scent; sweet-smelling, fragrant.

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1591.  Cokaine, Treat. Hunting, B 3 b. Sweet sented Roe.

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1606.  N. Baxter, Sydney’s Ourania, L iv b. The fragrant smell, Of sweetest sented flowers.

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1730.  Bailey (fol.), Aromatical, having a Spicey Smell, sweet scented.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. IV. vii. Thus go they plunging;… champ the sweet-scented forest-herb.

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1843.  Prescott, Mexico (1850), I. 62. He was arrayed in a splendid dress, regaled with incense, and with a profusion of sweet-scented flowers.

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  b.  spec. in names of species or varieties of plants having sweet-smelling flowers, leaves, etc.

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  Sweet-scented pea, an early name for the SWEET PEA.

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1666.  R. Preston, Lett., in Essex Rev. (1908), XVII. 133. One hogshead of Sweet-sented tobacco.

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1688.  Clayton, in Phil. Trans., XVII. 943. There is not only the two distinct sorts of a Sweet-scented, and Aranoko Tobacco, but of each of these be several sorts much different.

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1728.  Bradley, Dict. Bot., II. Lathyrus, in English Cicheling, is a kind of Pulse, which has many varieties … of these is our fine sweet scented Pea.

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1753.  Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., s.v. Rubus, The sweet scented rubus.

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1796.  Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), II. 59. Sweet-scented Vernal-grass.

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1846–50.  A. Wood, Class-bk. Bot., 258. Calycanthus floridus, Carolina Allspice. Sweet-scented Shrub.

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