Sweepstakes (sing. / pl.) A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
Sweepwasher (n.) One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.
Sweepy (a.) Moving with a sweeping motion.
Sweet (superl.) Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.
Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
Sweet (superl.) Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.
Sweet (superl.) 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.
Sweet (superl.) Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
Sweet (n.) That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Sweet (n.) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
Sweet (n.) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
Sweet (n.) That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
Sweet (n.) That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.
Sweet (n.) One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
Sweet (adv.) Sweetly.
Sweet (v. t.) To sweeten.
Sweetbread (n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
Sweetbread (n.) The pancreas.
Sweet-breasted (a.) Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.
Sweetbrier (n.) A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
Sweetened (imp. & p. p.) of Sweeten
Sweetening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweeten
Sweeten (a.) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
Sweeten (a.) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
Sweeten (a.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
Sweeten (a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
Sweeten (a.) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
Sweeten (a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
Sweeten (a.) To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
Sweeten (a.) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
Sweeten (v. i.) To become sweet.
Sweetener (n.) One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.
Sweetening (n.) The act of making sweet.
Sweetening (n.) That which sweetens.
Sweetheart (n.) A lover of mistress.
Sweethearting (n.) Making love.
Sweeting (n.) A sweet apple.
Sweeting (n.) A darling; -- a word of endearment.
Sweetish (a.) Somewhat sweet.
Sweetly (adv.) In a sweet manner.
Sweetmeat (n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
Sweetmeat (n.) The paint used in making patent leather.
Sweetmeat (n.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
Sweetness (n.) The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
Sweetroot (n.) Licorice.
Sweet-scented (a.) Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant.
Sweet-sop (n.) A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.
Sweetwater (n.) A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
Sweetweed (n.) A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
Sweetwood (n.) The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.)
Sweetwood (n.) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.
Sweetwort (n.) Any plant of a sweet taste.
Sweigh (n.) Sway; movement.
Sweinmote (n.) See Swainmote.
Swelled (imp.) of Swell
Swelled (p. p.) of Swell
Swollen () of Swell
Swelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swell
Swell (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.
Swell (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.
Swell (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
Swell (v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
Swell (v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
Swell (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.
Swell (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population.
Swell (v. t.) To aggravate; to heighten.
Swell (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.
Swell (v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.
Swell (n.) The act of swelling.
Swell (n.) Gradual increase.
Swell (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.
Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.
Swell (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.
Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
Swell (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.
Swell (n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor.
Swell (n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.
Swell (n.) A showy, dashing person; a dandy.
Swell (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.
Swelldom (n.) People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
Swellfish (n.) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
Swelling (n.) The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
Swelling (n.) A protuberance; a prominence
Swelling (n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
Swellish (a.) Dandified; stylish.
Swelltoad (n.) A swellfish.
Swelt () imp. of Swell.
Swelt (v. i.) To die; to perish.
Swelt (v. i.) To faint; to swoon.
Swelt (v. t.) To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter.
Sweltered (imp. & p. p.) of Swelter
Sweltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swelter
Swelter (v. i.) To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.