sweet scented (swetsen" ted)

Having a sweet smell; fragrant. - Sweet-scented cedar. See cedar, 3.-Sweet-scented crab, the American crab, Py rus coronaria, a small somewhat thorny tree with sweet and elegant rose-colored flowers and hard greenish-yellow fragrant fruit, sometimes made into preserves. - Sweet scented gra . Same as vernal gra (which see, under vernal).-Sweet-scented melon, shrub, etc. See the nouns.-Sweet-scented olive. See fragrant olive, un der olive. sweet-sop (swēt's op), n. An evergreen tree or shrub, Anona squamosa, native in tropical America, cultivated and naturalized in hot climates elsewhere; also, its fruit, which consists of a thick rind with projecting scales, containing a sweet pulp. In India called custard - apple, a name properly belonging to A. reticulata. Also sweet - apple. IMG:content-2623.png:[blocks in formation] When all the troubles of England were swelling to an outburst. R. D. Black more, Lorna Doone, v. 2. To belly, as sails; bulge out, as a cask in the middle; protuberate.-3. To rise in altitude; rise above a given level. Just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 450. 4. To be puffed up with some feeling; show outwardly elation or excitement; hence, to strut; look big: as, to swell with pride, anger, or rage. The Apostle said that when he was sicke then was he most strong and this he said because the sicke man doth neither swel by pride, either overwatch him selfe sweet-sucker (swēt's uk" ér), n. The chub- sucker, Erimyzon sucetta . sweet-tangle (swet'tang"gl), n. Same as kam- with ambition. bou . sweet-tempered (swēt'tem"pėrd), a. Having a gentle or pleasant temper. sweet-water (swēt'water), n. A white var i- ety of the European grape, with notably sweet juice. It is among those varieties which are most grown in hothouses. him. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 132. I... will help every one from him that swelleth against Book of Common Prayer , Psalter, Ps. xii. 6. Here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock. Shak., Hen. V., v. 1. 15. There was the portly, florid man, who swelled in, pa- tronizing the entire room. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 6. sweet weed (swēt'wed), n. 1. See West Indian tea , under tea1 .-2. Same as sweet broomwced. 5. To rise and gather; well up. See broom weed and Scoparia , 2.