sweepstake (swepstak)

[ Burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet. Shak., T. of the S., Ind., i. 49. The wind of May Is sweet with breath of orchards. Bryant, Among the Trees. Gloves as sweet as damask roses. Shak., W. T., iv. 4. 222. Sweet goldenrod. See Solidago. - Sweet gum. See gum2, and compare sweet - gum. - Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes, as thyme and sweet marjoram.-Sweet horsemint, lemon, marjoram, maudlin. See the nouns. - Sweet locust. Same as honey - locust. - Sweet marten, the pine-marten, Mustela martes: apparently so called in comparison with foul mar ten, the foulmart or polecat. [Eng.]-Sweet mountain fern. See Lastrea. - Sweet oleander. See oleander.Sweet orange, the common as opposed to the bitter or Seville orange. - Sweet pea. See peal. - Sweet pерper-bush. See Clethra. - Sweet pine-sap. See Schwei nitzia.-Sweet pishamin. See pishamin. - Sweet plum. See Owenia.- Sweet potato, precipitate, sackt, scasweet-flag.-Sweet spirit of niter. See spirit of nitrous ether, under nitrous. - Sweet stuff, candy; sweetmeats. [Colloq., Great Britain.] ently a player could take all the tricks or win all the stakes. To play at sweepstake , and take all together. Heylin, Hist. Presbyterians, p. 439. ( Latham .) 2. Same as sweepstakes . - To make sweepstaket, to make a clean sweep. If the pope and his prelates were charitable, they would, I trow, make sweep - stake at once with purgatory. J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 292. sweepstake (swēp'stāk), adv . [An elliptical use of sweepstake , n.] By winning and taking all the stakes at once; hence, by wholesale; indiscriminately.