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Wet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The wryneck; -- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

The common European sandpiper.

Knowingly. [Obs.] Spenser.

Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning. [Obs.] Spenser.

A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian aborigines, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long.

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

To deprive of sweetness. [R.] Bp. Richardson.

Sweet as honey. Chaucer.

The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.

To surpass in sweetness. [R.] Shak.

Same as Pewit (a & b).

taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.

Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6. [Obs.]

Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. Sweet-scented shrub (Bot.), a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.

A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.

Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, or throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.

rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.

To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.