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Word Meanings - SWEEPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • 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.

 

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