Word Meanings - SWEEPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to SWEEPY)

• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• MOVE
  To transfer from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. 3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• MOVIE
  A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• MOVING PICTURE
  A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision,
• 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.
• MOTION
  An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• MOVENT
  Moving. Grew.
• MOVING
  1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power. 2. Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal. I sang an old moving story.
• MOVINGLY
  In a moving manner. Addison.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• PROMOVE
  To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• THERMOVOLTAIC
  Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday.
• UNMOVABLY
  Immovably. J. Ellis.
• IMMOVABILITY
  The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.
• COUNTERMOVE
  To move in a contrary direction to.