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S W E S W E 
Not sour.—-Trees whose fruit is acid, last longer than 
those whose fruit is sweet. Bacon. —Mild; soft; gentle. 
Let me report to him 
Your sweet dependency, and you shall find 
A conqu’ror that will pray in aid for kindness. Shakspeare. 
Grateful; pleasing.— Sweet interchange of hill and valley. 
Milton. —Not stale; not stinking: as, that meat is sweet. 
SWEET, s. Sweetness; something pleasing. 
Hail ! wedded love. 
Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets! Milton. 
A word of endearment. 
Sweet! leave me here awhile, 
My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile 
The tedious day with sleep. Shafcspeare. 
A perfume. 
As in perfumes, 
’Tis hard to say what scent is uppermost; 
Nor this part musk or civet can we call, 
Or amber, but a rich result of all: 
So she was all a sweet. Dryden. 
SWEET EDINBURGH’S KEYS, a cluster of islets 
and rocks in the Spanish Main. Lat. 14. 55. N. long. 82. 
5. E. 
SWEET HERB LAKE, a lake of North America. Lat. 
54. 40. N. long. 99. W. 
SWEET SPRINGS, a post village of the United States, 
inMunroe county, Virginia ;28 miles south-east of Lewisburg 
and 42 south-west of Warm Springs. This place is cele¬ 
brated for its mineral waters, which are much resorted to 
SWEET WATER CREEK, a river of the United States, 
in Kentucky, which runs into Bear creek. 
SWEETBREAD, s. The pancreas of the calf. 
Sweetbread and collops were with skewers prick’d 
About the sides; imbibing what they deck’d. "Dryden. 
SWEE'TBRIAR, s. A fragrant shrub.—For March come 
violets and peach-tree in blossom, the cornelian-tree in 
blossom, and sweetbriar. Bacon. 
SWEETBRO'OM s. An herb, grica. 
SWEETCI'CELY, A plant, myrrhus. 
SWEETCISTUS, s. A shrub, called also gumcistus. 
A better claim sweet-cistus may pretend. 
Whose sweating leaves a fragrant balsam send. 
Tate's Cowley. 
To SWEE'TEN, v. a. To make sweet. — Give me 
an ounce of civet to sweeten my imagination. Shakspeare. 
—To make mild or kind.—All kindnesses descend upon 
such a temper, as rivers of fresh waters falling into the main 
sea; the sea swallows them all, but is not changed or sweet¬ 
ened by them. South. —Devotion softens his heart, en¬ 
lightens his mind, sweetens his temper, and makes every 
thing that comes from him instructive, amiable, and affecting. 
Law. —To make less painful. 
Thou shalt secure her helpless sex from harms. 
And she thy cares will sweeten with her charms. Dry den. 
To palliate; to reconcile.—These lessons may be gilt and 
and sweetened as we order pills and potions, so as to take 
oft’ the disgust of the remedy. L'Estrange. —To make 
grateful or pleasing. 
I would have my love. 
Angry sometimes, to sweeten off the rest 
Of her behaviour. B. Jon son. 
To soften; to make delicate.—Corregio has made his 
memory immortal, by the strength he has given to his figures 
and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them 
into each other so happily, that they are even impercep¬ 
tible. Dry den. 
To SWEETEN, v. n. To grow sweet.—Where a wasp 
hath bitten in a grape, or any fruit, it will sweeten hastily 
Bacon. 
SWEETENER, s. One that palliates; one that repre¬ 
sents things tenderly. 
But you who, till your fortune's made. 
Must be a sweetener by your trade, 
Must swear he never meant us ill. Swift. 
That which contemperates acrimony.—Powder of crabs’ 
eyesand claws, and burnt egg-shells, are prescribed as sweet¬ 
eners of any sharp humours. Temple. 
SWEETHEART, s. A lover or mistress. 
Mistress, retire yourself 
Into some covert; take your sweethearts 
And pluck o’er your brows. Shakspeare . 
SWEETHOPE, a township of England, in Northum¬ 
berland ; Ilf miles north-by-east of Hexham. 
SWEETING, s. A sweet luscious apple.—A child will 
chuse a sweeting because it is presently fair and pleasant, 
and refuse a runnet, because it is then green, hard, and 
sour. Ascham. —A word of endearment. 
Trip no further, pretty sweeting; 
Journeys end in lovers meeting. Shakspeare. 
SWEETISH, adj. Somewhat sweet.-—They esteemed 
that blood pituitous naturally, which abounded with an 
exceeding quantity of sweetish chyle. Floyer. 
SWEETISHNESS, 5. Quality of being somewhat sweet. 
—Tar.water—may extract from the clay a fade sweetishness 
offensive to the palate. Bp. Berkeley 
SWEETLY ado. [ppethce, Sax.] In a sweet manner; 
with sweetness. 
He bore his great commission in his look ; 
But sweetly temper’d awe, and soften’d all he spoke. 
Dryden. 
SWEETMA'RJORAM. See Marjoram. 
SWE'ETMEAT, s. Delicacies made of fruits preserved 
with sugar. 
Why all the charges of the nuptial feast. 
Wine and desserts, and sweetmeats to digest. Dryden. 
SWEETNESS, s. [ rpetnppe, Sax. Not often found 
in the plural.] The quality of being sweet in any of 
its senses; fragrance; melody; lusciousness; delicious¬ 
ness ; agreeableness; delightfulness; gentleness of man¬ 
ners ; mildness of aspect. 
O our lives’ sweetness! 
That we the pain of death would hourly bear, 
Rather than die at once. Shakspeai'e. 
Whosoever obeys the laws of Jesus, bears with the infirmi¬ 
ties of his relatives and society, seeks with sweetnesses to re¬ 
medy what is ill, and to prevent what it may produce, and 
throws water upon a spark. Bp. Taylor. 
SWEETWPLLIAM, s. [anneria, Lat.] A plant. A 
species of gilliflower. 
Sweet-william, sops in-wine, the champion, and to these 
Some lavender they put. Drayton. 
SWEETWI'LLOW, ,5. Gale or Dutch myrtle. 
SWEFLING, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 3 miles 
west-north-west of Saxmundham. 
SWEINI, a village on the northern frontier of Darfur, 
the first at which the caravans from Cairo arrive, and where 
they are obliged to wait, till they receive permission from 
the king to proceed; 45 miles north of Cobbe. 
To SWELL, v. n. part. pass, swollen, {jpellan, Sax. 
swellen, Dutch.] To grow bigger; to grow turgid; to 
extend the parts. 
Propitious Tyber smooth’d his watery way, 
He roll’d his river back, and pois’d he stood, 
A gentle swelling and a peaceful flood. Dryden. 
To tumify by obstruction. 
Swoll'n is his breast; his inward pains encrease, 
All means are us’d, and all without success. Dryden. 
To be exasperated. 
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