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Answer for the clue "Sweet, as a drink ", 9 letters:
nectarous

Word definitions for nectarous in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nectarous \Nec"tar*ous\, a. Nectareous. --Milton.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant; "a nectarous drink"; "ambrosial food" [syn: ambrosial , ambrosian ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. consisting of, having the quality of, or resemble nectar

Usage examples of nectarous.

And now it is deluged with a nectarous flood -- the young germs swamped -- delicious poison cankering them: now I see myself stretched on an ottoman in the drawing-room at Vale Hall at my bride Rosamond Oliver's feet: she is talking to me with her sweet voice -- gazing down on me with those eyes your skilful hand has copied so well -- smiling at me with these coral lips.