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.