Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 207
Sweepstakes (n. sing. pl.) 賭金的獨得；總賭金 A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
Sweepstakes (n.) A lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants.
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.
The branches bend before their sweepy away. -- Dryden.
Sweet (v. t.) To sweeten. [Obs.] -- Udall.
Sweet (adv.) Sweetly. -- Shak.
Sweet (n.) 【英】糖果 [P]；【英】（餐後的）甜點 [U] [C]；芳香 [P] That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural. Specifically:
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.
A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet. -- Locke.
Sweet (n.) One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment. "Wherefore frowns my sweet?" -- B. Jonson.
Sweet (a.) 甜的；悅耳的；漂亮的；芳香的；美味的；逗人喜愛的，可愛的 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 (a.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. -- Longfellow.
Sweet (a.) 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.
To make his English sweet upon his tongue. -- Chaucer.
A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. -- Hawthorne.
Sweet (a.) Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. -- Milton.
Sweet (a.) Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. -- Bacon.
Sweet (a.) Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
Sweet (a.) (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
Sweet (a.) (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
Sweet (a.) Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades? -- Job xxxviii. 31.
Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. -- M. Arnold.
Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum.
Sweet apple. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
Sweet apple. (Bot.) (b) See Sweet-sop.
Sweet bay. (Bot.) (a) The laurel ({Laurus nobilis).
Sweet bay. (Bot.) (b) Swamp sassafras.
Sweet calabash (Bot.), A plant of the genus Passiflora ({Passiflora maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
Sweet cicely. (Bot.) (a) Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. -- Gray.
Sweet cicely. (Bot.) (b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis ({Myrrhis odorata) growing in England.
Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as Sweet flag, below.
{Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), An evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum}) from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot.
Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), A kind of butterbur ({Petasites sagittata) found in Western North America.
Sweet corn (Bot.), A variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
See the Note under Corn.
Sweet fern (Bot.), A small North American shrub ({Comptonia asplenifolia syn. Myrica asplenifolia) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
Sweet flag (Bot.), An endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus"> Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus)
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America. See Calamus, 2.
Sweet gale (Bot.), A shrub ({Myrica Gale"> Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale) having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and Dutch myrtle. See 5th Gale.
Sweet grass (Bot.), Holy, or Seneca, grass.
Sweet gum (Bot.), An American tree ({Liquidambar styraciflua). See Liquidambar.
Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes.
Sweet John (Bot.), A variety of the sweet William.
Sweet leaf (Bot.), Horse sugar. See under Horse.
Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram.
Sweet marten (Zool.), The pine marten.
Sweet maudlin (Bot.), A composite plant ({Achillea Ageratum) allied to milfoil.
Sweet oil, Olive oil.
Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea.
Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato.
Sweet rush (Bot.), Sweet flag.
Sweet
spirits of niter (Med.
Chem.) See Spirit of nitrous ether, under Spirit.
Sweet sultan (Bot.), An annual composite plant ({Centaurea moschata),
also, the yellow-flowered ({Centaurea odorata); -- called also sultan
flower.
Sweet tooth, An especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
Sweet William. (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus) of many varieties.
Sweet William. (b) (Zool.) The willow warbler.
Sweet William. (c) (Zool.) The European goldfinch; -- called also sweet Billy. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.
Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry.
To be sweet on, To have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. [Colloq.] -- Thackeray.
Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet;
luscious.
Sweet (adv.) In an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is
sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan Hayward
plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the
moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each
other" [syn: sweetly, sweet].
Sweet (a.) Having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar [ant: sour].
Sweet (a.) Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition" [syn: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet].
Sweet (a.) Pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet].
Sweet (a.) Pleasing to the senses; "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child."
Sweet (a.) Pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge" [syn: gratifying, sweet].
Sweet (a.) Having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers" [syn: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling].
Sweet (a.) (Used of wines) having a high residual sugar content; "sweet dessert wines" [ant: dry].
Sweet (a.) Not containing or composed of salt water; "fresh water" [syn: fresh, sweet] [ant: salty].
Sweet (a.) Not soured or preserved; "sweet milk" [syn: fresh, sweet, unfermented].
Sweet (a.) With sweetening added [syn: sugared, sweetened, sweet, sweet-flavored].
Sweet (n.) English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912) [syn: Sweet, Henry Sweet].
Sweet (n.) A dish served as the last course of a meal [syn: dessert, sweet, afters].
Sweet (n.) A food rich in sugar [syn: sweet, confection].
Sweet (n.) The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth [syn: sweet, sweetness, sugariness].
Sweet (n.) The property of tasting as if it contains sugar [syn: sweetness, sweet].
Sweetbread (n.) 小牛、小羊的胰臟或胸腺 Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck sweetbread or 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.) (Anat.) The pancreas.
Sweetbread (n.) Edible glands of an animal [syn: sweetbread, sweetbreads].
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 (v. t.) 使變甜；使變香；降低（土壤、胃等的）酸性；平息，撫慰；軟化；減輕（痛苦等） To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
Sweeten (v. t.) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
Sweeten (v. t.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
Sweeten (v. t.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life. -- Dryden.
And sweeten every secret tear. -- Keble.
Sweeten (v. t.) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
Correggio 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. -- Dryden.
Sweeten (v. t.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
Sweeten (v. t.) To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
Sweeten (v. t.) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
Sweeten (v. i.) 變甜；變香；變溫和 To become sweet. -- Bacon.
Sweeten (v.) Make sweeter in taste [syn: sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate] [ant: acetify, acidify, acidulate, sour].
Sweeten (v.) Make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable; "sweeten a deal."
Sweetener (n.) 增甜劑；糖精；甜頭；好處 One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.
Sweetener (n.) Something added to foods to make them taste sweeter [syn: sweetening, sweetener].
Sweetener (n.) Anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener].
Sweetening (n.) The act of making sweet.
Sweetening (n.) That which sweetens.
Sweetheart (n.) 心上人，戀人，情人 [C]；【口】甜心（用來稱呼心愛的人或家人；女人口語上表示友善的稱呼） A lover of mistress.
Sweetheart (a.) Privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically); "another sweetheart deal based on political influence."
Sweetheart (n.) A person loved by another person [syn: sweetheart, sweetie, steady, truelove].
Sweetheart (n.) Any well-liked individual; "he's a sweetheart."
Sweetheart (n.) A very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish].
Sweethearting (n.) Making love.
Sweethearting (In British English) (n.) (Business) The granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop.
Sweeting (n.) 甜蘋果（一種蘋果品種） A sweet apple.
Sweeting (n.) 【古】戀人；心上人；心愛之人 A darling; -- a word of endearment.
Sweetish (a.) 有點甜的；有點可愛的；過甜的，甜得發膩的 Somewhat sweet.
Sweetly (adv.) 舒適地，愜意地；美妙悅耳地；甜蜜地；親切地；可愛地，溫柔地 In a sweet manner.
Sweetmeat (n.) 糖果；蜜餞 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.) [U] 甜美；芳香；悅耳；悅目 The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
Sweetroot (n.) 甘草，甜旗草 Licorice.
Compare: Licorice
Licorice (n.) (British liquorice) 【植】歐亞甘草；（由甘草根熬成的）甘草精 A sweet, chewy, aromatic black substance made by evaporation from the juice of a root and used as a candy and in medicine.
‘A whoosh of freshly ground mocha coffee hits the nose and then, once the wine hits your mouth, it's joined by black fruits, liquorice, spice and a spray of refreshing acidity.’
Licorice (n.) A candy flavored with licorice.
As modifier ‘licorice gumdrops’
Licorice (n.) The widely distributed plant of the pea family from which licorice is obtained.
Genus Glycyrrhiza, family Leguminosae; many species are used locally to obtain licorice, the chief commercial source being the cultivated G. glabra
‘Herbal treatments may include garlic, eucalyptus, licorice, lobelia, marshmallow, red clover and saw palmetto.’
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.) 增大，膨脹，腫脹，增強 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.) 增大，隆起的部分，巨浪，腫大 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.) 優秀的，一流的 Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.
Swelldom (n.) 【口】時髦社會 People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. [Jocose]
Compare: Puffer
Puffer (n.) One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.
Puffer (n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. -- Bouvier.
Puffer (n.) (Zool.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon of the family Tetraodontidae; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish. They are highly poisonous due to the presence of glands containing a potent toxin, tetrodotoxin.
Nevertheless they are eaten as a delicacy in Japan, being prepared by specially licensed chefs who remove the poison glands.
Puffer (n.) (Zool.) The common, or harbor, porpoise.
Puffer (n.) (Dyeing) A kier.
Swellfish (n.) (Zool.) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
Compare: Bur fish
Bur fish, () (Zool.) A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.
Swelling (n.) 增大；膨脹 [U]；隆起物；疙瘩；腫瘤 [C]；Swell的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea. -- Coleridge.
Swelling (n.) A protuberance; a prominence; especially.
Swelling (n.) (Med.) An unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. -- Sir I. Newton.
Swelling (n.) An abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement [syn: swelling, puffiness, lump].
Swelling (n.) Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence].
Swelling (n.) The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) [syn: intumescence, intumescency, swelling].
Swelling, () Of Jordan (Jer. 12:5), literally the "pride" of Jordan (as in R.V.), i.e., the luxuriant thickets of tamarisks, poplars, reeds, etc., which were the lair of lions and other beasts of prey. The reference is not to the overflowing of the river banks. (Comp. 49:19; 50:44; Zech. 11:3).
Swellish (a.) Dandified; stylish. [Slang]
Swelltoad (n.) (Zool.) A swellfish.
Swelt () obs. imp. of Swell.
Swelt (v. i.) To die; to perish. [Obs.]
Swelt (v. i.) To faint; to swoon. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Night she swelt for passing joy. -- Spenser.
Swelt (v. t.) To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Bp. Hall.
Sweltered (imp. & p. p.) of Swelter.
Sweltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swelter.
Swelter (v. i.) 熱得難受；熱得出汗 To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle." -- Coleridge.