sweet william (swetwilyam)

1. The bunch pink, Dianthus barbatus, a garden flower, hardy and of vigorous growth, bearing in close clusters a profusion of brightly and variously colored flowers, generally party-colored in zones. Compare sweet - john. Some with sweet - williams red, some with bear's-foot, and the like low flowers, being withal sweet and sightly. Bacon, Gardens (ed. 1887). Soon shall we have gold-dusted snapdragon, Sweet - William with its homely cottage-smell. Do but behold the tears that swell in me. Shak., L. L. L., iv. 3. 37. IMG:content-2624.png:[blocks in formation] Gers hym swolow a swete, that swell is hym after. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 13680. The water swells a man; and what a thing should I have been when I had been swelled ! Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 5. 18. M. Arnold , Thyrsis. And Int'rest guides the Helm, and Honour swells the Sail. Prior , Celia to Damon. What gentle Sorrow Swells thy soft Bosom? 2. The Deptford pink, or sweet-william catchfly, Dianthus Armeria. See pink2.-3. See Lychnis. [U. S.] -4. The goldfinch, Car duel is elegans. [Eng.] - Barbados sweet-william. See Ipomea.-Wild sweet-william. See Phlox. sweet-willow (swēt'wil"ō), n. The sweet-gale: so named from its willow-like habit and scented leaves.