Sway (v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
Sway (n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
Sway (n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
Sway (n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
Sway (n.) Rule; dominion; control.
Sway (n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
Sway-backed (a.) Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.
Sway-bracing (n.) The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents its swaying.
Swayed (a.) Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse.
Swayful (a.) Able to sway.
Swaying (n.) An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.
Swealed (imp. & p. p.) of Sweal
Swealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweal
Sweal (v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame.
Sweal (v. t.) To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.
Swore (imp.) of Swear
Sware () of Swear
Sworn (p. p.) of Swear
Swearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swear
Swear (v. i.) To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc.
Swear (v. i.) To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.
Swear (v. i.) To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.
Swear (v. t.) To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath.
Swear (v. t.) To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; -- ofetn followed by in or into; as, to swear witnesses; to swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office.
Swear (v. t.) To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend.
Swear (v. t.) To appeal to by an oath.
Swearer (n.) One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration.
Swearer (n.) A profane person; one who uses profane language.
Swearing () a. & n. from Swear, v.
Sweat (imp. & p. p.) of Sweat
Sweated () of Sweat
Swat () of Sweat
Sweating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweat
Sweat (v. i.) To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
Sweat (v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
Sweat (v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
Sweat (v. t.) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
Sweat (v. t.) To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
Sweat (v. t.) To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
Sweat (v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
Sweat (v. i.) The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.
Sweat (v. i.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
Sweat (v. i.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
Sweat (v. i.) The sweating sickness.
Sweat (v. i.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
Sweater (n.) One who sweats.
Sweater (n.) One who, or that which, causes to sweat
Sweater (n.) A sudorific.
Sweater (n.) A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes.
Sweater (n.) An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
Sweatily (adv.) In a sweaty manner.
Sweatiness (n.) Quality or state of being sweaty.
Sweating () a. & n. from Sweat, v.
Sweaty (superl.) Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
Sweaty (superl.) Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
Sweaty (superl.) Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult.
Swede (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
Swede (n.) A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.
Swedenborgian (n.) One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.
Swedenborgian (a.) Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.
Swedenborgianism (n.) The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.
Swedish (a.) Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
Swedish (n.) The language of Swedes.
Sweeny (n.) An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.
Swept (imp. & p. p.) of Sweep
Sweeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweep
Sweep (v. i.) To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively.
Sweep (v. i.) To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.
Sweep (v. i.) To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
Sweep (v. i.) To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
Sweep (v. i.) To strike with a long stroke.
Sweep (v. i.) To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
Sweep (v. i.) To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
Sweep (v. i.) To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
Sweep (v. i.) To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.
Sweep (v. i.) To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.
Sweep (n.) The act of sweeping.
Sweep (n.) The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
Sweep (n.) The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
Sweep (n.) The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.
Sweep (n.) Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.
Sweep (n.) Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.
Sweep (n.) Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.
Sweep (n.) One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.
Sweep (n.) A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.
Sweep (n.) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.
Sweep (n.) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
Sweep (n.) The almond furnace.
Sweep (n.) A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
Sweep (n.) In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
Sweep (n.) The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
Sweepage (n.) The crop of hay got in a meadow.
Sweeper (n.) One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
Sweeping (a.) 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 accusation.
Sweepings (n. pl.) Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
Sweep-saw (n.) A bow-saw.
Sweepstake (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes.
Sweepstake (n.) A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.
Sweepstakes (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
Sweepstakes (sing. / pl.) 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.