1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; — usually in the plural; a
confect; a confection.
2. The paint used in making patent leather.
3. (Zoöl.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast. [Local, U.S.]
Sweetness
(Sweet"ness), n. [AS. swetness.] The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the
adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
Sweetroot
(Sweet"root`) n. (Bot.) Licorice.
Sweet-scented
(Sweet"-scent`ed) a. 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.
Sweet-sop
(Sweet"-sop`) n. (Bot.) A kind of custard apple See under Custard.
Sweetwater
(Sweet"wa`ter) n. (Bot.) A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; — also
called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
Sweetweed
(Sweet"weed`) n. (Bot.) A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and
Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
Sweetwood
(Sweet"wood`) n. (Bot.) (a) The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.) (b) The timber of the tree
Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other
related trees.
Sweetwort
(Sweet"wort`) n. Any plant of a sweet taste.
Sweigh
(Sweigh) n. Sway; movement. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sweinmote
(Swein"mote`) n. See Swainmote. [Obs.]
