Vocabulary : Sweetwater to Swellfish
Sweetwater : A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
Sweetweed : A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
Sweetwood : 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.
Sweetwort : Any plant of a sweet taste.
Sweigh : Sway; movement.
Sweinmote : See Swainmote.
Swell : 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. ;; 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. ;; To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves. ;; To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride. ;; To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell. ;; To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style. ;; To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle. ;; To be elated; to rise arrogantly. ;; To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. ;; To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount. ;; To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big. ;; To increase the size, bulk, or
Swelldom : People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
Swelled : of Swell ;; of Swell
Swellfish : Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
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