sweet-oil 
sweet-Oil (swet'oil'), n. Olive-oil. 
SWeet-pea (swi-1.'pV), n. See .<</ /mi, under 
JH'd ' . 
sweet-potato (wWpo-ta'to), n. Sec mm I IHI- 
tiilo, under polnln. 
SWeet-reed (Hwet'red). . Sorghum. [South 
Al'i-icn. | 
BWeetroot (swot'rot), n. The licorice, (llyryr- 
SWeet-rush (swet'rush), . 1. See rush*. 2. 
Same as sweet-Jlag. 
sweet-scented (swet'scn'tcd), a. Having a 
sweet .smell; t'rngmnt.- Sweet-scented cedar. See 
ceilar, 3. Sweet-scented crab, thu American crab, Py- 
rus coronaria, a small somewhat thorny tree with sweet 
and elegant rose-colored flowers and hard greenish-yellow 
fragrant fruit, sometimes made into preserves. - Sweet- 
scented grass. Manic as vernal grass (which see, under 
venial).- Sweet-scented melon, shrub, etc. See the 
nouns. Sweet-scented Olive. Sce/ra</rant Mm, un- 
der olive. 
sweet-sop (swet'sop), n. An evergreen tree or 
shrub, Anona squamosii, native in tropical Amer- 
ica, cultivated and naturalized in hot climates 
elsewhere ; also, its fruit, which consists of a 
thick rind with projecting scales, containing a 
sweet pulp. In India called custard-apple, a 
name properly belonging to A. reticulata. Also 
sweet-apple. 
sweet-sucker (swet'suk-'er), n. The chub- 
sucker, Erimyzon succtta. 
sweet-tangle (swet'tang'gl), n. Same as kam- 
htnr . 
sweet-tempered (swet'tem'perd), a. Having 
a gentle or pleasant temper. 
sweelr-water (swet'wa'ter), . A white vari- 
ety of the European grape, with notably sweet 
juice. It is among those varieties which are 
most grown in hothouses. 
sweetweed (swet' wed), H. 1. See West Indian 
tea, under tea 1 . 2. Same as sweet broomweed. 
See broomweed and Scoparia, 2. 
sweet-williani(swet'wil'yam),n. 1. The bunch- 
pink, Diantlius barbatus, a garden flower, hardy 
and of vigorous growth, bearing in close clus- 
ters a profusion of brightly and variously col- 
ored flowers, generally party-colored in zones. 
Compare sweft-jolin. 
Some with sweet-icilliamg red, some with bear's-foot, and 
the like low flowers, being withal sweet and sightly. 
Bacon, Gardens (ed. 1887). 
Soon shall we have gold-dusted snapdragon, 
Sweet-William with its homely cottage-smell. 
M. Arnold, Thyrsis. 
2. The Deptford pink, or sweet-william catch- 
fly, Dianthus Armeria. See pink 2 . 3. See 
Lychnis. QJ. S.] 4. The goldfinch, Carduetis 
eleganx. fEng.] Barbados sweet-william. See 
Ipomaa. Wild sweet- William. See Phlox. 
sweet- willow (swet 'wil* 6), n. The sweet-gale : 
so named from its willow-like habit and scented 
leaves. 
sweetwood (swet'wud), n. A name of several 
chiefly laurineous trees and shrubs found in 
the West Indies and South America. The black 
sweetwood is Ocotea (Strychnodaphne) jtoribunda, a small 
tree or shrub of Jamaica ; the loblolly-sweetwood or 
Rio Grande sweetwood, Ocotea (Oreodaphne) Leucoxylon, 
of the West Indies and South America (loblolly-sweet- 
wood is also the local name of the West Indian Sciado- 
phyllum Jacquini); the long-leafed, Nectandra leucantha; 
the lowland, pepper, white, or yellow, N. fanguinea, a 
Umber-tree 50 feet high, of the islands and continent; 
the mountain, Acrodiclidium Jamaicense, a small tree of 
mountain woods in Jamaica ; the shrubby, the rutaceous 
genus Amyris ; the tiinbcr-swcetwood,JVe<;on<Jra exaltata, 
a tall tree with a hard yellow durable wood, found espe- 
cially in Jamaica, also fi. leucantha and Acrodiclidium 
Jamaicense; the white, A", sanyuinea and \. leucantha. 
The sweetwood of the Bahamas is Oroton Eleuteria, the 
source of cascarilla or sweet wood bark. Sweetwood 
bark. Same as cascarUla. 
sweetwort (swet'wert), H. [< sweet + worfl.~] 
Any plant of a sweet taste. 
sweignt, See sicai/. 
sweint, sweinmotet, . See swain, sicainmote. 
sweir, . A Scotch spelling of sweer. 
swell (swel), r. ; pret. swelled, pp. swelled or swol- 
len, ppr. swelling. Swollen is now more frequent- 
ly used as an adjective. [< ME. swellen (pret. 
swal, pp. swollen), < AS. swellan (pret. sweall, pp. 
swollen) = OS. swellan = OFries. swella = MD. 
swellen, D. zwellen = MLG. swellen, LG. swellen, 
xirillfii = ()!!({. sircllan, MHG. swellen,Q. schwel- 
It'ii Icel. srella = Sw. maWa = Goth, "swillan 
(not recorded), swell ; prob. akin to Gr. oa^erav, 
toss (cf. ud/lor, aafa/, tossing motion, <Ta?.of, a 
sieve, o-o/of , a quoit ; L. sal urn, the open, tossing 
sea).] I. intranti. 1. To grow in bulk ; bulge; 
dilate or expand ; increase in size or extent by 
addition of any kind; grow in volume, inten- 
sity, or force : literally or figuratively, and used 
in a great variety of applications. 
6109 
Ilir thonghte It meal so soore aboute hire herte 
That nedely som word hire moMte imtcrtr. 
Chaucer, Wife of Math's Talc, 1. 111. 
Thus doth this Globe mrell out to our use, for which il 
enlargeth It selfe. I'nrrhai, 1'ilKrimage, p. 11. 
Brooks, taken, and Floods, Klvers and foaming Torrents 
Suddenly tu-ell. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, L 2. 
If he [Constantino] bad oiirh'd the growing Pride, Ava- 
rice, and Luxury of the rlergle, then every Page of his 
Story should have swel'd with his Faults. 
Milieu. I; iMMii:.ti.in In Kng., i. 
No, wretched Heart, swell 'till yon break ! 
Cowicy, The Mistress, Concealment. 
The murmur gradually melted Into a fierce and terrible 
clamour. Hacaulay, Sir William Temple. 
Every burst of warlike melody that came swelling on 
the breeze was answered by a gush of sorrow. 
Irving, Granada, p. 107. 
When all the troubles of England were welling to an 
outburst R. D. Btacltmore, Lorna Doone, v. 
2. To belly, as sails; bulge out, as a cask in 
the middle; protuberate. 3. To rise in alti- 
tude ; rise above a given level. 
Just beyond ncett the green knoll on which stands the 
whitewashed church. Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 460. 
4. To be puffed up with some feeling; show out- 
wardly elation or excitement ; hence, to strut; 
look big : as, to swell with pride, anger, or rage. 
The Apostle said that when he was slcke then was he 
most strong : and this he said because the slcke man doth 
neither tncel by pride, . . . either overwatch him selfe 
with ambition. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577X p. 132. 
I ... will help every one from him that fwelleth against 
him. Book of Common Prayer, Psalter, 1's. xtL 6. 
Here he comes, fuelling like a turkey-cock. 
Shak., Hen. V., v. 1. 18. 
There was the portly, florid man, who swelled in, pa- 
tronizing the entire room. 
C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 6. 
5. To rise and gather; well up. 
Do but behold the tears that sicell In me. 
Shak., L. L. L., Iv. 3. 87. 
Swelling over the rim of moss-grown stones, the water 
stole away under the fence. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, vL 
II. trans. 1. To increase the bulk, size, 
amount, or number of; cause to expand, dilate, 
or increase. 
Gers hym swolow a swete, that swcllis hym after. 
Destruction o) Troy (E. E. T. 8.X 1. 13680. 
The water swells a man ; and what a thing should I 
have been when I had been swelled ! 
Shak., M. W. of W., 111. 5. 18. 
And Int'rest guides the Helm, and Honour swells the Sail. 
Prior, Cella to Damon. 
What gentle Sorrow 
Swells thy soft Bosom ? 
Congrere, Semele, IL S. 
The debt of vengeance was swollen by all the usury 
wblch had been accumulating during many yean. 
Macaulay, Nugent's Hampden. 
2. To inflate ; puff up ; raise to arrogance. 
If It did Infect my blood with joy, 
Or si'ill my thoughts to any strain of pride. 
Shot.. 2 Hen. IV., Iv. 5. 171. 
They are swoln full of pride, arrogancy, and self-conceit 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 185. 
What other notions but these, or such like, could neett 
up Caligula to think himself a God? 
Millun, Eikonoklastes, xL 
3. To increase gradually the intensity, force, 
or volume of : as, to swell atone. See swell, n.,4. 
swell (swel), . [< swell, .] I. The act of 
swelling; augmentation in bulk; expansion; 
distention ; increase in volume, intensity, num- 
ber, force, etc. 
It moderates the Sirell of Joy that I am in to think of 
your Difficulties. Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, iv. 1. 
The rich swell of a hymn, sung by sweet Swedish voices, 
floated to us over the fields as we drove up to the post- 
station. IS. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 413. 
2. An elevation above a level, especially a 
gradual and even rise : as, a swell of land. 
Soft mossy lawns 
Beneath these canopies extend their ncells. 
Shelley, Alastor. 
Beside the crag the heath was very deep ; when I lay 
down, my feet were burled In it : . . .a low, mossy swell 
was my pillow. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxviii. 
3. A wave, especially when long and unbroken ; 
collectively, the waves or fluctuations of the 
sea after a storm, often called ground-swell; 
billows ; a surge : as, a heavy swell. 
A fisherman stood on the beach In a statuesque attitude, 
his handsome bare legs bathed in the frothy sirrlls. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 41. 
Up ! where the airy citadel 
O'erlooks the surging landscape's swell. 
Emcnon, Monadnoc. 
4. Ill music: (a) A gradual increase and follow- 
ing decrease in loudness or force ; a crescendo 
swell-fish 
combined with a diminuendo. Compare mr**n 
ili i-iii-r. (ft) The sign <Ior>-, usea to denote 
the above, (c) A mechanical contrivance in 
the harpsichord and in both the pipe-organ and 
the i-eeil-orgiin by which the londnesK of the 
t(.nes may be varied by opening or shutting the 
lid or set of blinds of a closed box, case, or cham- 
ber within which are the sounding striiiRs. pipes, 
or vibrators. Its most common modern form Is that 
of Venetian blinds, wblch are controlled by a pedal or 
knee-lever. The swell was Introduced Into the organ 
from the harpsichord about 1712. (d) Same as swell- 
hojc, ir< ll-l.'i I//HHI fi/. .-> ll-nri/iiii. or xirrll-jieiial. 
See also organ 1 , 6. 5. In a cannon, an enlarge- 
ment near the muzzle: it is not present in 
guns as now made. 6. In a gunstock, the en- 
larged and thickened part. L. H. Knight. 7. 
In geol., an extensive area from whose central 
region the strata dip quaquaversally to a mod- 
erate amount, so as to give rise to a geologi- 
cally and topographically peculiar type of struc- 
ture. 
Tills central spot Is called the San Rafael swell, and It 
Is full of Interest and suggestion to the geologist. From 
its central point the strata dip away in all directions, the 
Inclination, however, being always very small. 
C. . Itultun, Sec. Ann. Rep. r. S. Geol. SUIT., p. :,r.. 
8. In coal-miiiiiig, a channel washed out or in 
some way eroded in a coal-seam, and afterward 
filled up with clay or sand. Also called, in some 
English coal-fields, a horse, and in others a want; 
sometimes also a horse-back, and in the South 
Wales coal-field a su-ine-back. 0. A man of 
great claims to admiration ; one of distinguished 
personality ; hence, one who puts on such an ap- 
pearance, or endeavors to appear important or 
distinguished; a dandy: as, a howling swell (a 
conspicuously great swell). [Colloq.] 
The abbey may do very well 
For a feudal "Nob, "or poetical 5teH. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, 1. 110. 
Sellna remark'd that a sirrll met at Borne 
Is not always a swell when you meet him at home. 
F. Locker, Mr. Placid's Flirtation. 
Presently, from the wood in front of us, emerged the 
head of the body of cavalry, a magnificent irirell, as he was 
called, in yellow shawls, with a green turban, mounted on 
a white arab, leading them. 
W. H. ItustcU, Diary in India, I. 271. 
Bruce can't be half such a tirell as one fancied. He 's 
only taken a second. Farrar, Julian Home. 
10. In a stop-motion of a loom, a curved lever 
in the shuttle-box, which raises a catch out of 
engagement with the stop or stop-finger when- 
ever the shuttle fairly enters the shuttle-box, 
but which, when the shuttle fails to enter, per- 
mits such engagement, thus bringing into ac- 
tion mechanism that stops the loom. Compare 
stop-motion . - Full swell, the entire power of the swell- 
organ. =Syn. 3. Seewowi. 
n. a. First-rate of its kind ; hence, elegant ; 
stylish. [Colloq.] 
They narrate to him the advent and departure of the 
lady In the swell carriage the mother of the young swell 
with the flower In his button-hole. 
Thackeray, Philip, xxilL 
swell-blind (swel'blind), n. In organ-build- 
ing, one of the movable slats or blinds forming 
the front of the swell-box. These slats are 
now usually arranged vertically. 
swell-box (swel'boks), n. In organ-building, 
the box or chamber in which the pipes of the 
swell-organ are placed, the front being made 
of movable blinds or slats, which can be opened 
or shut by means of a pedal . some of the pipes of 
the great organ are occasionally included in the swell- 
box, and the entire choir-organ is sometimes inclosed in 
a swell-box of its own with a separate pedal. .See cut 
under organ. 
swelldom (swel'dum), . [< swell + -dom.\ 
Swells collectively; the fashionable world. 
[Colloq.] 
This Isn't the moment, when all Swelldom Is at her feet, 
for me to come forward. Thackeray, Newcomes, xliii. 
swell-fish (swel'fish), n. A plectognath fish, of 
any of the several genera Tetrodon, IHodon, 
and related forms, capable of inflating itself 
like a ball, or swelling up by swallowing air: 
the name is given to the globe-fish, bur-fish, 
Swell-fish (CkitemyctfrNS ftvntttrittis'1. 
(From Report of United States Fish Commbston.) 
