Word Meanings - SWEEPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• CARPET
  packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• OXYGENIZE
  To oxidize.
• CARPETBAG
  A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• OXYGENATOR
  An oxidizer.
• OXYGENIC
  Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen.
• CARPETING
  1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• OXYGENIUM
  The technical name of oxygen.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• 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
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• DEOXYGENATE
  To deoxidize.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• DISOXYGENATE
  To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize.
• DEOXYGENIZE
  To deoxidize.
• PEASWEEP
  The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.