With rubies edg’d, and sapphires swept the plain. To the world’s ridge, and sweeps me off like rubbish?Ī duke holding in a great many hands, drew a huge heap of gold but never observed a sharper, who under his arm swept a great deal of it into his hat. I have already swept the stakes, and with the common good fortune of prosperous gamesters can be content to sit. That sweeps at once the people and the prince. They miss or sweep but common souls away The blustering winds striving for victory, swept the snow from off the tops of those high mountains, and cast it down unto the plains in such abundance, that the Turks lay as men buried alive. With barefac’d power, sweep him from my sight,Īnd bid my will avouch it yet I must not. To drive or carry off with celerity and violence. What woman, having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one, doth not sweep the house, and seek diligently ’till she find it?Īnd, like a peacock, sweep along his tail. Having made one incision a little circularly, begin a second, bringing it with an opposite sweep to meet the other.Įtymology: swapan, Saxon. In countries subject to great epidemical sweeps, men may live very long, but where the proportion of the chronical distemper is great, it is not likely to be so. With wintry tempests, that disdains all mounds,
#Sweep definition torrent#
Lion-hearted Richard like a torrent swell’d The compass of any violent or continued motion.Ī door drags when by its ill hanging on its hinges, or by the ill boarding of the room the bottom edge of the door rides in its sweep upon the floor. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: from the verb.
#Sweep definition series#
To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series. To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series. To move something in a particular motion, as a broom To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less. To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.Ī flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland. Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Ī person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.Ī search (typically for bugs ).Ī batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.Ī lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins. "Her new show dog swept all championships" "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres" "The novel spans three centuries" To cover or extend over an area or time period "They were swept up by the events" "don't drag me into this business" "Sweep the crumbs off the table" "Sweep under the bed"Įmbroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in verbįorce into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action "The diva swept into the room" "Shreds of paper sailed through the air" "The searchlights swept across the sky" Move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions "Her long skirt brushed the floor" "A gasp swept cross the audience" (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
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