Sweat is salt in taste ; for that part of the nou Grease that 's sweaten Rishment which is fresh and sweet turneth into From the murtherer's gibbet, throw blood and flesh; and the sweat is that part which Into the flame. Sbakspeare is excerned. Bacon. For him the rich Arabia sweats her gum. Some insensible effluvium, exhalling out of the Dryden. stone, comes to be checked and condensed by 2. To make to sweat. the air on the superficies of it, as it happens to Swea'TER. n. s. [from sweat.] One that sweat on the skins of animals, Boyle. sweats, or makes to sweat. Soft on the flow'ry herb I found me laid In balmy sweat. Milton. SWEA'TY. adj. [from sweat.] When Lucilius brandishes his pen, 1. Covered with sweat; moist with sweat. And flashes in the face of guilty men, The rabblement houted and clapp'd their A cold sweat stands in drops on ev'ry part, chopp'd hands, and threw up their sweaty nightAnd rage succeeds to tears, revenge to smart. caps. Sbakspeare. Dryden. A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought Sweat is produced by changing the balance be First-fruits, the green ear, and the yellow sheaf. tween the fuids and solids, in which health con Milton. sists, so as that projectile motion of the fluids 2. Consisting of sweat. overcome the resistance of the solids. Arbuthnot, And then, so nice, and so genteel, 2. Labour; toil; drudgery: Such cleanliness from head to heel; This painful labour of abridging was not easy, No humours gross, or frowsy steams, but a matter of sweat and watching. 2 Maccabees. No noisome whiffs, or sweaty streams. Swift. The field 3. Laborious; toilsome. 'To labour calls us, now with sweat impos'd. Those who labour Milton. The sweaty forge, who edge the crooked scythe, What from Jonson's oil and sweat did flow, Bend stubborn steel, and harden gleening arOr what more easy nature did bestow mour, On Shakespeare's gentler muse, in thee full Acknowledge Vulcan's aid. Prior. grown To Sweep. v. a. pret. and part. pass. Their graces both appear. Denbam. swept. [rpapan, Saxon.] 3. Evaporation of moisture. 1. To drive away with a besom. Beans give in the mow; and therefore those 2. To clean with a besom. that are to be kept are not to be thrashed till What woman, having ten pieces of silver, if March, that they have had a thorough sweat in the mow. Mortimer. she lose one, doth not sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? Luke. To SWEAT. v. n. preterit swet, sweated; 3. To carry with pomp. part. pass. sweaten. (from the noun.] Let frantick Talbot triumph for a while, 1. To be moist on the body with heat or And, like a peacock, sweep along his tail. labour. Sbakspeare. Let them be free, marry them to your heirs, 4. To drive or carry off with celerity and Why sweat they under burthens! Sbakspeare. violence. Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blow Though I could, ing, and looking wildly, would needs speak with With barefac'd power, sweep him from my you. Sbakspeare. sight, When he was brought again to the bar, to hear And bid my will avouch it; yet I must not. His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr'a Sbakspeare. With such an agony, he sweet extremely. The river of Kishon swept them away. Sbakspeare. Judges, About this time in autumn, there reigned in The blustering winds striving for victory the city and other parts of the kingdom a disease swept the snow from off the tops of those high then new; which, of the accidents and manner mountains, and cast it down unto the plains in thereof, they called the sweating sickness. such abundance, that the Turks lay as men Bacon. buried alive. Knoliese A young tall squire Flying bullets now Did from the camp at first before him go; To execute his rage appear too slow; At first he did, but scarce could follow strait, They miss or sweep but common souls away; Sweating beneath a shield's unruly weight. For such a loss Opdam his life must pay. Cowlry. Waller. 2. To toil; to labour; to drudge. My looking is the fire of pestilence, How the drudging goblin swet That sweeps at once the people and the prince. To earn his cream-bowl duly set; Dryden. I have already swept the stakes, and with the When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, common good fortune of prosperous gamesters His shadowy Mail hath thresh'd the corn. Milt. can be content to sit. Our author, not content to see Dryden. Is this the man who drives me before him That others write as carelessly as he; To the world's ridge, and sweeps me off like Though he pretends not to make things com rubbish ? Dryden. plete, Fool! time no change of motion knows; Yet, to please you, he'd have the poets sweat. With equal speed the corrent flows To sweep fame, power, and wealth away: 3. To emit moisture. The past is all by death possest, And frugal fate, that guards the rest, By giving, bids them live, to-day. Fenton. In cold evenings there will be a moisture or A duke, holding in a great many hands, drew sweating upon the stool. Mortimer. a huge heap of gold; but never observed a to SWEAT. v. a. sharper, who under his arm swept a great deal 3. To emit as sweat. of it into his hat, Swift. VOL. IV, water. EC Pope. equal motion. 1 5. To pass over with celerity and force. Is'e writ in your revenge, 6. To rub over. That sweepstake you will draw both friend and foe, Their long descending train Winner and loser ? Sbakspeare. With rubies edgid and sapphires, swept the plain. Dryder. Swee'ey. adj. [from sweep.] Passing with 7. To strike with a long stroke. great speed and violence over a great Descend, ye nine ; descend, and sing; compass at once. The breathing instruments inspire, They rush along, the rattling woods give way, Wake into voice each silent string, The branches bend before their sweepy sway: And sweep the sounding lyre. Dryden. TO SWEEP. V.n. Sweet.adj. [rpete, Saxon; soet, Dutch.] 1. To pass with violence, tumult, or swift 1. Pleasing to any sense. ness. Perhaps in the first quotation we should read swoop. Sweet expresses the pleasant perceptions of almost every sense: sugar is sweet, but it hath Haste me to know it, that I with wings as not the same sweetness as musick; nor hath swift musick the sweetness of a rose, and a sweet As meditation or the thoughts of love prospect differs from them all: nor yet have any May sweep to my revenge. Shekspeare. of these the same sweetness as discourse, coud A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like sel, or medication hath; yet the royal psalmist a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. Proverbs. saith of a man, we took sweet counsel cogecher; Cowen in her course and of God, my meditation of him shall be szuszt. Tow'rds the Sabrinian shores, as sweeping from TV atti. her source, 2. Luscious to the taste. Takes Towa. Drayton. This honey tasted still is eyer sweet. Devia. Before tempestuous winds arise, Stars shooting through the darknessgild the night 3. Fragrant to the smell. Balm his foul head with warm distilled waters, With sweeping glories, and long trails of light. Dryden. And burn sweet wood, to make the lodging sweet. Sbakspeare 2. To pass with pomp ; to pass with an Where a rainbow hangeth over or touchetk, there breatheth a sweet smell; for that this She sweeps it through the court with troops happeneth but in certain matters which have of ladies, some sweetness, which the dew of the rainbow More like an empress than duke Humphrey's draweth forth. Baces. wife. Shakspeare. Shred very small with thyme, sweet-margory, In gentle dreams I often will be by, and a little winter savoury. Walton. And sweep along before your closing eye. The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Dryden. Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breach. Pepco 3. To move with a long reach. The streets with treble voices ring, Nor always errs; for oft the gauntlet draws To sell the bounteous product of the spring; A sweeping stroke along the crackling jaws. Sweet-smelling towers, and elders early buid. Dryden. Gas. Sweep, n. s. [from the verb.] 4. Melodious to the ear. 1. The act of sweeping. The dulcinner, all organs of sweet stop, Milter. 2. The compass of any violent or continued motion. Her speech is grac'd with sweeter sound Than in another's song is found. A door drags, when, by-its ill hanging on its No more the streams their murmurs shall hinges, or by the ill boarding of the room, the forbear, bottom edge of the door rides in its sweep upon A sweeter musick than their own to hear; the floor. Moxon. But tell the reeds, and tell the vocal shore, A torrent swellid Fair Daphne's dead, and musick is no more. With wintry tempests, that disdains all mounds, Pop: Breaking away impetuous, and involves Within its sweep, irees, houses, men. Philips. 5. Pleasing to the eye. Heav'n bless thee! 3. Violent and general destruction. Thou hast the sweetest face I ever look'd on. In countries subject to great epidemical Sbakspears sueeps, men may live very long; but where the 6. Not salt. proportion of the chronical distemper is great, it is not likely to be so. Graunt. The white of an egg, or blood mingled with 4. Direction of any motion not rectilinear. salt water, gathers the saltness, and maketh the Having made one incision a little circularly, water sweeter; this may be by adhesion. Baces. The sails drop wich rain, begin a second, bringing it with an opposite Sbarp. sweep to meet the other. Sweet waters mingle with the briny main. SWEE'PER. n. s. [from sweep.] One that 7. Not sour. sweeps. Time changeth fruits from more sour to more SWEE'PINGS. n. s. [from sweep.] That stveets but contrariwise liquors, even those that which is swept away. are of the juice of fruit, from more sweet to more Should this one broomstick enter the scene, Baron. covered with dust, though the sweepings of the Trees whose fruit is acid last longer than those finest lady's chamber, wc should despise its vae whose fruit is sweet. Becos. nity. Swift. When metals are dissolved in acid mene Swee'PNET. n. s. [sweep and net.] A net. struums, and the acids in conjunction with the that takes in a great compass. metal act after a different manner, so that the She was a sweepnet for the Spanish ships, compound has a different taste, much milder than before, and sometimes a sweet one; is it which happily fell into her net. Camden, not because the acids adhere to the metallic par. SWEE'PSTAKE, N. s. [swerp and stake.] ticles, and thereby lose much of their activity? A man that wins all. Nrutas, Walle. Dryden. sour, me. 8. Mild; soft ; gentle. Swee'T BRIAR. N. s. (sweet and briar.) Let me report to him A fragrant shrub. Your sweet dependency, and you shall find For March come violets and peach-tree in A conqu'ror that will pray in aid for kindness. blossom, the cornelian-tree in blossom, and Sbakspeare. sweetbriar. Bacon. The Pleiades before him danc'd, SWEEÄT BROOM. n. s. [grica, Latin.] An Shedding sweet influence. Milton. Ainsworth. Sweetci'CELY. n. s. [myrrhus, Lat.) A Waller. plant. Miller. 9. Grateful ; pleasing. To Swee'ren.v. a. (from sweet.] Nothing so sweete is as our countrie's earth, 1. To make sweet. And joy of those, from whom we claime our The world the garden is, she is the flow'r birth. Chapman. That sweetens all the place; she is the guest Sweet interchange of hill and valley. Milton. Of rarest price. Sidney: Euryalus, Here is the smell of the blood still: all the Than whom the Trojan host perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little No fairer face or sweeter air could boast. Dryd. hand. Sbakspeare. 10. Not stale; not stinking: as, that meat Give me an ounce of civet to sweeten my ima is sweet. gination. Shakspeare, SWEET. n. So With fairest flow'rs, Fidele, Shakspeare. 1. Sweetness ; something pleasing. Be humbly minded, know your post; Sweeten your tea, and watch your coast. Swift. 2. To make mild or kind. Sbakspeare. What softer sounds are these salute the ear, All kindnesses descend upon such a temper, From the large circle of the hemisphere, as rivers of fresh waters falling into the main As if the center of all sweets met here? sea; the sea swallows them all, but is not Ben Jonson. changed or sweetened by them. South. If ev'ry sweet, and ev'ry grace, Devotion softens his heart, enlightens his Must fly from that forsaken face. Carew. mind, sweetens his temper, and makes every Hail! wedded love, thing that comes from him instructive, amiable, and affecting. Law. Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets! Milton. Taught to live 3. To make less painful. The easiest way; nor with perplexing thoughts She, the sweetness of my heart, even sweetens To interrupt the sweet of life. Milt. the death which her sweetness brought upon Now since the Latian and the Trojan brood Sidney. Have casted vengeance, and the sweets of blood, Thou shalt secure her helpless sex froma Speak. Dryden. harms, Can Ceyx then sustain to leave his wife, And she thy cares will sweeten with her And unconcern'd forsake the sweets of life? charms. Dryden. Dryden. Interest of state and change of circumstances We have so great an abhorrence of pain, that may have sweetened these reflections to the poa little of it extinguishes all our pleasures; a liter sort, but impressions are not so easily little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish worn out of the minds of the vulgar. Addison. of the seveet. Locko. Thy mercy sweeten'd ev'ry soil, Love had ordain'd that it was Abra's turn Made ev'ry region please; To mix the sweets, and minister the urn. Prior. The hoary Alpin hills it warm’d, 2. A word of endearment. And smooth'd the Tyrrhene seas. Spectator. Sweet ! leave me here a while ; 4. To palliate ; to reconcile. My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile These lessons may be gilt and sweetened as we The tedious day with sleep. Shakspeare. order pills and potions, so as to take off the disWherefore frowns my sweet? gust of the remedy. L'Estrange Have I too long been absent from these lips? s. To make grateful or pleasing. Ben forson. I would have my love 3. A perfume. Angry sometimes, to sweeten off the rest Of her behaviour. Ben Jonson. 'T is hard to say what scent is uppermost; 6. To soften; to make delicate. Nor this part musick or civet can we call, Corregio has made his memory immortal, by Or amber, but a rich result of all : the strength he has given to his figures, and by So she was all a sweet. Dryden. sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting Flowers them into each other so happily, that they are Innumerable, by the soft south-west even imperceptible. Dryden. Open'd, and gather'd by religious hands, To SWEE'TEN. v.1. To grow sweet. Rebound their sweets from th' odoriferous pave- Where a wasp hath bitten in a grape, or any Prior. fruit, it will sweeten hastily. Bacon. SWEEʻTBREAD. N. s. The pancreas of the SwE E'TENER. N. s. (from sweeten.] calf. 1. One that palliates; one that represents Never tic yourself always to eat meats of easy digesture, as veal, pullets, or sweetbreads. things tenderly: Harvey. But you, who, till your fortune's made, Sweetbread and collops were with skewers Must be a sweet'ner by your trade, Must swear he never meant us ill. prick'd Swift. About the sides; imbibing what they deck'd. Those softeners, sweeteners, and compoundDryden. ers, shake their heads so strongly, that we can When you roast a breast of veal, remember hear their pockets jingle. Swift. your sweetheart the butler loves a sweetbread. 2. That which contemperates acrimony. Swift. Powder of crabs eyes and daws, and burnt ment. ! egg-shells, are prescribed as sweeteners of any The right form, the true figure, the natural sharp humours. Temple. colour that is fit and due to the dignity of a Swel'THEART. n. s. (sweet and heart.] man, to the beauty of a woman, to the sweetness of a young babe. Ascban. A lover or mistress. O our lives sweetness ! That we the pain of death would hourly bear, Sbakspeare. Where a rainbow toucheth, there breatheth red as any rose. Sbakspeare. forth a sweet smell : for this happeneth but in certain matters which have in themselves some One thing, sweetheart, I will ask, Take me for a new-fashion'd mask. Cleaveland. sweetness, which the gentle dew of the rainbow draweth forth. Bacon. A wench was wringing her hands and crying; she had newly parted with her sweetheart. His sweetness of carriage is very particularly L'Estrange. Feli. remembered by his contemporaries. Serene and clear harmonious Horace flows, She interprets all your dreams for these, Foretells th' estate, when the rich uncle dies, With sweetness not to be exprest in prose. Roscommon. And sees a sweetheart in the sacritice. Dryden. SWEE'TING. n. s. [from sweet.] Suppose two authors equally sweet, there is a great distinction to be made in sweetness; as in 1. A sweet luscious apple. that of sugar, and that of honey. Dryden. A child will chuse a sweeting, because it is This old man's talk, though honey flow'd presently fair and pleasant, and refuse a run In every word, would now lose all its sweetness. net, because it is then green, hard, and sour. Addison Ascbam. Praise the easy vigour of a line, 2. A word of endearment. Where Denham's strength and Waller's streetTrip no further, pretty sweeting ; ness join. Pope Journeys end in lovers meeting. Sbakspeare. A man of good education, excellent underSWEE'TISH. adj. [from sweet.] Somewhat standing, and exact casse; these qualities are sweet. adorned with great modesty, and a most amiable They esteemed that blood pituitous naturally, sweetness of temper. Strift which abounded with an exceeding quantity of SWEETWI'LLIAM.I n. s. (armeria, Lat.] sweetish chyle. Floyer. SWEETWI'Llow. ) Plants. A species SWEE’TLY.adv. [from sweet.) In a sweet of gilliflowers. manner; with sweetness. The best wine for my beloved goeth down SWEETWI'LLOW, n. s. Gale or Dutch sweetly. Cuanticles. myrtle. He bore his great commission in his look ; To SWELL. v. n. participle pass. swollen, But sweetly temper'd awe, and soften'd all he [rpellan, Saxon, swellen, Dutch.] spoke. Dryden. 1. To grow bigger ; to grow turgid; to Uniess he were like Phobus young; extend the parts. Nor ever nymph inspir'd to rhyme, Propitious Tyber smooth'd his wat 'ry way, Unless like Venus in her prime. Swift: He rolld his river back, and pois'd he stood, SWEE'TMEAT. n. s. [sweet and mrat.] A gentle swelling, and a peaceful flood. Dryden. Delicacies made of fruits preserved with 2. To tumify by obstruction. Strangely visited people, Mopsa, as glad as of sweetmeats to go of such All swoľn and ulc'rous, pitiful to the eye, an errand, quickly returned. Sidney The mere despair of surgery, he cures. Skalsk Why all the charges of the nuptial feast, Swol'n in his breast; his inward pains enWine and deserts, and sweetmeats to digest. crease, Dryden. All means are us'd, and all without success. There was plenty, but the dishes were ill Dryder sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys 3. To be exasperated. and women, but little solid meat for men. Dryden. My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds, My mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs Make your transparent sweetmeats truly nice, Sbakspeare. With Indian sugar and Arabian spice. King. If a child cries for any unwholesome fruit, you 4. To look big. purchase his quiet by giving him a less hurtful Here he comes, swelling like a Turkey-cock. sweet meat : this may preserve his health, but spoils his mind. Locke. s. To be turgid. Used of style. At a lord-mayor's feast, the sweetmeats do Peleus and Telephus, exil'd and poor, not make their appearance till people are cloyed Forget their swelling and gigantick words. with beef and mutton. Addison. Rosenmc. They are allowed to kiss the child at meeting 6. To protuberate. and parting; but a professor, who always stands This iniquity shall be as a breach ready to fall, by, will not suffer them to bring any presents of swelling out in a high wall. toys or sweetmeats. Swift. 7 To rise into arrogance ; to be elated. SWE E'TNESS. n. s. [from sweet.] The In all things else above our humble fate, quality of being sweet in any of its Your equal mind yet swells not into state. senses ; fragrance ; melody; luscious. ness; deliciousness; agreeableness ; de- 8. To be inflated with anger. lightfulness; gentleness of manners ; I will help every one from him that sellab mildness of aspect. against him, and will set him at rest. She, the sweetness of my heart, even sweeten We have made peace of enmity ing the death which ber owsiness brought upon Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers, Sbaisseart. Sidacy, sugar. Sbakspear. Isaiah Dryden. Prala. swerve. 2 The hearts of princes kiss obedience, To SWE'LTER. v. &. To parch, or dry up So much they love it; but to stubborn spirits with heat. They swell and grow as terrible as storms. Some would always have long nights and short Shekspears. days; others again long days and short nights; 9. To grow upon the view. one climate would be scorched and sweltered O for a muse of fire, that would ascend with everlasting dog-days, while an eternal DeThe brightest heaven of invention ! cember blasted another. Bentley A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, SWE'LTRY. adj. [from swelter.] Suffo. And monarchs to behold the swelling scene. cating with heat. Sbakspeare . Swept. The participle and preterit of 10. It implies commonly a notion of something wrong soveep. Your youth admires TO SWERD. v. n. To breed a green turf. The throws and swellings of a Roman soul, *(See To SWARD.] Cato's bold fights, th' excravagance of virtue. The clays that are long in swerding, and little Addison. subject to weeds, are the best land for clover. Immoderate valour swells into a fault. Mortimer. Addison. To Swerve. v. n. [swerven, Saxon and To Swell. v. a. Dutch.] 1. To cause to rise or increase; to make 1. To wander ; to rove. tumid. A maid thicherward did run, Wind, blow the earth into the sea, To catch her sparrow, which from her did Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main. Sidney. Sbakspeare. The swerving vines on the tall elms prevail, You who supply the ground with seeds of Unhurt by southern show'rs or northern hail. grain, Dryden. And you who swell those seeds with kindly 2. To deviate ; to depart from rule, cusrain, Dryden. tom, or duty. 2. To aggravate ; to heighten. That which angels do clearly behold, and It is low ebb with his accuser, when such without any swerving observe, is a law celestial peccadillos are put to swell the charge. and heavenly. Hooker. Atterbury. Howsoever swervings are now and then in3. To raise to arrogance. cident into the course of nature, nevertheless, All these miseries proceed from the same na- 80 constantly the laws of nature are by natural tural causes, which have usually attended king- agents observed, that no man denieth but those doms swolen with long plenty, pride, and excess. things which nature worketh are wrought al Clarendon, ways, or for the most part, after one and the · The king of men, who, swoln with pride, Hooker. Refus'd his presents, and his prayers deny'd. The ungodly have laid a snare for me; but Dryden. yet I swerve not from thy commandments. SWELL. n. s. [from the verb.] Extension Commen Prayer. of bulk. Were I the fairest youth That ever made the eye swerve. Shakspeare. There is a protection very just which princes That stands upon the scuell at full of tide, And neither way inclines. Sbakspeare, owe to their servants, when, in obedience to SWE'LLING, 1. s. their just commands, upon extraordinary oc[from swell.] casions, in the execution of their trusts, they 1. Morbid tumour. swerve from the strict letter of the law. There is not a chronical disease that more Clarendon. frequently introduces the distemper I am dis- Till then his majesty had not in the least coursing of than strumous or scrophulous swell- swerved from that act of parliament. Clarendon. ings or ulcers. Blackmore. Annihilation in the course of nature, defect 2. Protuberance ; prominence. and swerving in the creature, would immediThe superficies of such plates are not even, ately follow. Hakewill. but have many cavities and swellings, which, Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve. how shallow soever, do a little vary the thick Milton, ness of the plate. Newton. Many, who, through the contagion of ill ex3. Effort for a vent. ample, swerve exceedingly from the rules of My heart was torn in pieces to see the hus their holy faith, yet would upon such an exband suppressing and keeping down the swell- traordinary warning be brought to comply with ings of his grief. Tatler. Atterbury. To Swelt. v. n. To break out in sweat, 3. To ply; to bend. if that be the meaning. Now their mightiest quell'd, the battle Chearful blood in faintness chill did melt, sweru'd Which, like a fever fit, through all his body With many an inroad gor'd. Milton, smelt. Spenser. 4. (I know not whence derived.] To climb TO SWEʼLTER. v. n. (This is supposed on a narrow body: to be corrupted from sultry.) To be Ten wildings have I gather'd for my dear, pained with heat. Upon the topmost branch: the tree was high, Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I srveru'd. Dryden She fled, returning by the way she went, And swerv'd along her bow with swift ascent. Dryde SWIFT. adj. [rpift, Saxon.) 1. Moving far in a short time ; quick same manner. |