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- English Word Sweepstakes Definition A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
- English Word Sweepstakes Definition The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.
- English Word Sweepstakes Definition A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
- English Word Sweepwasher Definition 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.
- English Word Sweepy Definition Moving with a sweeping motion.
- English Word Sweet Definition 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.
- English Word Sweet Definition Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
- English Word Sweet Definition 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.
- English Word Sweet Definition Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
- English Word Sweet Definition Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.
- English Word Sweet Definition Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
- English Word Sweet Definition Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
- English Word Sweet Definition That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- English Word Sweet Definition Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
- English Word Sweet Definition Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
- English Word Sweet Definition That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
- English Word Sweet Definition That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.
- English Word Sweet Definition One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
- English Word Sweet Definition Sweetly.
- English Word Sweet Definition To sweeten.
- English Word Sweet-breasted Definition Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.
- English Word Sweet-scented Definition Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant.
- English Word Sweet-sop Definition A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.
- English Word Sweetbread Definition Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
- English Word Sweetbread Definition The pancreas.
- English Word Sweetbrier Definition A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
- English Word Sweeten Definition To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.