A winning of all the stakes or prizes.
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A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
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.
Moving with a sweeping motion.
To sweeten.
Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.
Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant.
A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.
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.
A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
To become sweet.
One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.
The act of making sweet.
A lover of mistress.
Making love.
A sweet apple.
Somewhat sweet.
In a sweet manner.
Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
Licorice.
A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.
Any plant of a sweet taste.
Sway; movement.
See Swainmote.
Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.
People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
Dandified; stylish.
A swellfish.
To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter.
To oppress with heat.
Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry.
To swallow.
imp. p. p. of Sweep.
Sword.
To turn aside.
A vision seen in sleep; a dream.
Such.
A genus of meliaceous trees consisting of one species (Sweitenia Mahogoni), the mahogany tree.
The current of a stream.
To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
The courser.
Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.
One who swills.
See Swill, n., 1.
To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough.
One who swims.
One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.
Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.
In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
Act or state of swimming; suffusion.
See Swink.
The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Swindling; rougery.
Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.
A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.
The truffle.
A hogsty.
A hogsty.
A hogsty.
The wolf fish.
A keeper of swine.
The European redwing.
Same as Piggery.
See Stinkstone.
A sty, or pen, for swine.
The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
The European swift.
The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.
A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
Huge; very large.
The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
One who swinges.
A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.
A swingletree.
The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.
A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.
a. n. from Swingle, v. t.
The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.
Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.
Labor; toil; drudgery.
A laborer.
See Sweeny.
To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.
That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.
Nimble; quick.
A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.
A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.
Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.
To walk with a jerk.
an elctrical apparatus consisting predominantly of a panel on which are switches or other means of completing electrical circuits; -- used especially for the devices used in telephone exchanges. See sense 2.
A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger.
a sudden and unexpected change or reversal of position, attitude, or action.
a. n. from Switch, v.
a device used as part of an electronic device, which transforms electrical current from an AC line circuit to DC for use in electronic devices, and which can use either 110 volt or 220 volt AC line curent.
One who tends a switch on a railway.
Whisking.
Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly.
A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.
To copulate with (a woman).
To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
Squint-eyed.
Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally.
See Swab.
See Swabber.
Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.
Contraction of Swollen, p. p.
imp. of Swim.
A fainting fit; syncope.
a. n. from Swoon, v.
A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
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