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Sweet"meat` (?), n. 1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.

2. The paint used in making patent leather.

3. (Zoöl.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast. [Local, U.S.]

Sweet"ness, n. [AS. swtness.] The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

Sweet"root` (?), n. (Bot.) Licorice.

Sweet"-scent`ed (?), a. Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant.

Sweet-scented shrub (Bot.), a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.

Sweet"-sop` (?), n. (Bot.) A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.

Sweet"wa`ter (?), n. (Bot.) A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.

Sweet"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.

Sweet"wood` (?), n. (Bot.) (a) The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.) (b) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.

Sweet"wort` (?), n. Any plant of a sweet taste.

Sweigh (?), n. Sway; movement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Swein"mote` (?), n. See Swainmote. [Obs.]

Swell (?), v. i. [imp. Swelled (?); p. p. Swelled or Swollen (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Swelling.] [AS. swellan; akin to D. zwellen, OS. & OHG. swellan, G. schwellen, Icel. svella, Sw. svälla.] 1. 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.

2. 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.

3. To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.

4. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.

You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.

Sir W. Scott.

5. To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.

6. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.

7. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.

8. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

Your equal mind yet swells not into state.

Dryden.

9. To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. "Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" Shak.

10. To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.