sweat leather (swetleTH"er)

1. A leather flap attached to a stirrup-leather to protect the rider's leg from the sweat of the horse.-2. A sweat-band. sweatle (swet'les), a. [ Thou for whom Harvest all the yeer doth last, That in poor Desarts rich a boun dance heap'st, That sweat-le eat'st, and without sowing reap'st. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe. ( Davies .) sweat-lodge (swet'loj), n . Same as sweat - house . Amer. Soc. Psychical Research , I. 141. sweat-shop (swet's hop), n. A shop where work is done for a sweater. See sweater, 2 ( b ). sweat-stock (swet's tock), n. In tanning, a collective term for skins or hides which have been unhaired by treatment in the sweating-pit. sweaty (swet'i), a. [ This sweaty haste Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day. Shak . , Hamlet, i. 1. 77. If he would needs put his foot to such a sweaty service, the odour of his Sock was like to be neither musk nor benjamin. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. sweddle (swed'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. sweddled, ppr. sweddling. [Appar. a var. of swaddle, with sense due to swell.] To swell; puff out. Hal liwell. [Prov. Eng.] Swede (swed), n. [Formerly also Sweed; = F. Suède = MD. Swede, D. Zweed = MHG. Sweide, Swede, G. Schwede = Goth.* Swetha (pl. Swethans, in Jornandes); cf. L. Sitones, a people of northern Germany, near the Suiones; cf. Icel. Sviar = Sw. Svear, Swedes; Icel. Svenskr, Svænskr = Sw. Dan. Svensk, Swedish; Icel. Sviarīki = Sw. Sverige = Dan. Sverrig = AS. Sweórice, Swió rice, Sweden, lit. 'kingdom of the Swedes'; as Sweón, Swión (L. Suiones ), the Swedes, + rice, kingdom. The name Sweden, D. Zweden, G. Schweden, was orig. dat. pl. of Swede.] 1. A native of Sweden, a kingdom of Europe which occupies the eastern part of the Scand in avian peninsula. Since 1814 it has been united with Norway under a common sovereign.-2. [ cap. or l. c.] A Swedish turnip. Past rhododendron shrubberies, broad fields of golden stubble, sweet clover, and gray swedes , with Ogwen making music far below. Kingsley , Two Years Ago, xxi. 3t. A cannon consisting of a thin metal tube wound around with rope and covered with leather. Such cannon are said to have carried about a quarter of the load of an iron cannon. They were introduced by the Swedes, and used until the battle of Leipsic. Swedenborgian (swe-dn-bor'ji-an), a. and n. [ Swedenborg , the name of a Swedish family, changed from Svedberg when it was ennobled in 1719.] I. a . Pertaining or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), a Swedish scientific and religious author, or to Swedenborgianism. II. n. A believer in the theology and religious doctrines of Swedenborg; a New Churchman. Swedenborg held Rev. xxi. 2, "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven," to be a prediction of the establishment of a new dispensation, the initiation of which took place by the execution of the last judgment in the spiritual world in the year 1757, whereby man was restored to moral freedom by the restriction of evil infestations, the power of which had threatened its utter extinction. In proof of this belief, his followers point to the unparalleled spiritual and material progre of mankind since that date. They were first organized in London (where Swedenborg long resided) in 1788, under the name of the "Society of the New Church signified by the New Jerusalem," usually abbreviated to New Church. Profe ed Swedenborgians, though widely scattered, have never been numerous; but Swedenborg himself appears not to have contemplated the formation of a separate church, trusting to the per meation of his doctrines through the existing churches. Swedenborgians believe that this proce is going on, and that thus the new dispensation is making its way independently of their own organization or efforts, and even without the conscious knowledge of most of those affected by it. Swedenborg considered himself the divinely appointed herald and expounder of this dispensation, being prepared for the office by open intercourse during many years with spirits and angels (all originally human and with God himself, who revealed to him the spiritual or symbolic sense of the Divine Word (which the world had not previously been in a state to receive or apprehend), setting forth spiritual and celestial truths in every part through the correspondence of all material things with the spiritual principles, good or evil, of which they are the outgrowth and manifestation. This doctrine of correspondences is the foundation of his system, which he elaborated with uniform consistency in many volumes, all first published in Latin. In this correspondence consists the plenary inspiration of the Word, which includes only the Pent a teuch, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, the Proph ets and Psalms, the four Gospels, and the Apocalypse; the other books of the Bible are valuable for instruction, but lack this divine character.