Word Meanings - ENSWEEP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.

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• RAPIDLY
  In a rapid manner.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• THOMSONIANISM
  An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
• SWEEPING
  Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping
• SWEEP-SAW
  A bow-saw.
• SWEEPY
  Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
• SWEEPWASHER
  One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.
• THOMSON PROCESS
  A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.
• SWEEPER
  One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper. It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy. Huxley.
• SWEEPINGS
  Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
• SWEEP
  To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net. 7. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope. To sweep, or sweep up, a mold , to form the
• ACROSS
  From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course
• SWEEPSTAKE
  1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes. Heylin. 2. A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. Bp. Hacket.
• THOMSONITE
  A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
• THOMSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. -- n.
• SWEEPSTAKES
  The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed. 3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered. (more
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• PEASWEEP
  The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.