sweetbread (swetbred)

1. The pancreas of an animal, used for food; also, the thymus gland so used. Butchers distinguish the two, the former being the stomach- sweetbread, the latter the neck - sweetbread or throat - sweetbread. -21. A bribe or douceur. I obtain'd that of the fellow... with a few sweetbreads that I gave him out of my purse." Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, II. 163. ( Davies .) 3. A part of the lobster taken from the thorax for canning. [Maine.] Sweet