Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 206
Sway (v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
Hadst thou swayed as kings should do. -- Shak.
Sway (n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
With huge two-handed sway brandished aloft. -- Milton.
Sway (n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires. -- A. Tucker.
Sway (n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
Expert When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway Of battle. -- Milton.
Sway (n.) Rule; dominion; control. -- Cowper.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. -- Addison.
Sway (n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Syn: Rule; dominion; power; empire; control; influence; direction; preponderance; ascendency.
Sway (n.) Controlling influence.
Sway (n.) Pitching dangerously to one side [syn: rock, careen, sway, tilt].
Sway (v.) Move back and forth or sideways; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet" [syn: rock, sway, shake].
Sway (v.) Move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; "He swung back" [syn: swing, sway].
Sway (v.) Win approval or support for; "Carry all before one"; "His speech did not sway the voters" [syn: carry, persuade, sway].
Sway (v.) Cause to move back and forth; "rock the cradle"; "rock the baby"; "the wind swayed the trees gently" [syn: rock, sway].
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. -- Shak.
Swayful (a.) Able to sway. [R.] -- Rush.
Swaying (n.) An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses. -- Crabb.
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. [Written also swale.] -- Sir W. Scott.
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.
Ye shall swear by my name falsely. -- Lev. xix. 12.
I swear by all the Roman gods. -- Shak.
Swear (v. i.) (Law) 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.
[I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week. -- Shak.
To swear by, To place great confidence in a person or thing; to trust implicitly as an authority. "I simply meant to ask if you are one of those who swear by Lord Verulam." -- Miss Edgeworth.
To swear off, To make a solemn vow, or a serious resolution, to abstain from something; as, to swear off smoking. [Slang]
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 unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me. -- Gen. xxi. 23.
He swore consent to your succession. -- Shak.
Swear (v. t.) (Law) 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. -- Johnson.
Swear (v. t.) To appeal to by an oath.
Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain. -- Shak.
To swear the peace against one, to make oath that one is under the actual fear of death or bodily harm from the person, in which case the person must find sureties that he will keep the peace.
Swear (v.) Utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate].
Swear (v.) To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear].
Swear (v.) Promise solemnly; take an oath.
Swear (v.) Make a deposition; declare under oath [syn: swear, depose, depone].
Swear (v.) Have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes" [syn: trust, swear, rely, bank] [ant: distrust, mistrust, suspect].
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.
Then the liars and swearers are fools. -- Shak.
Swearer (n.) Someone who uses profanity.
Swearer (n.) Someone who takes a solemn oath.
Swearing () a. & n. from Swear, v.
Sweat (v. t.) 使出汗；出汗弄濕；（使）滲出，（使）流出；榨出 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.
It made her not a drop for sweat. -- Chaucer.
With exercise she sweat ill humors out. -- Dryden.
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. [Colloq.]
To sweat coin, To remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by "sweating", or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression. -- R. Cobden.
Sweat (imp. & p. p.) of Sweat.
Sweated () of Sweat.
Swat () of Sweat.
Sweating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweat.
Sweat (v. i.) 出汗；（物體表面）結水珠，附上水汽 To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. -- Shak.
Sweat (v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. He 'd have the poets sweat. -- Waller.
Sweat (v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
Sweat (n.) (Physiol.) 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.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. -- Gen. iii. 19.
Sweat (n.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery. -- Shak.
Sweat (n.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack. -- Mortimer.
Sweat (n.) The sweating sickness. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.
Sweat (n.) (Man.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
Sweat box (Naut.), A small closet in which refractory men are confined.
Sweat glands (Anat.), Sudoriferous glands. See under Sudoriferous.
Sweat (n.) Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his brow" [syn: {perspiration}, {sweat}, {sudor}].
Sweat (n.) Agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: {fret}, {stew}, {sweat}, {lather}, {swither}].
Sweat (n.) Condensation of moisture on a cold surface; "the cold glasses were streaked with sweat."
Sweat (n.) Use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn: {effort}, {elbow grease}, {exertion}, {travail}, {sweat}].
Sweat (v.) Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat" [syn: {sweat}, {sudate}, {perspire}].
Sweater (n.) 毛線衣；（厚）運動衫 [C]；大量出汗的人 [C]；發汗劑 One who sweats.
Sweater (n.) One who, or that which, causes to sweat; as:
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. [Slang]
Sweater (n.) A crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body [syn: sweater, jumper].
Sweater (n.) A person who perspires [syn: perspirer, sweater].
Sweatily (adv.) In a sweaty manner.
Sweatiness (n.) Quality or state of being sweaty.
Sweating () a. & n. from Sweat, v.
Sweaty (a.) Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
Sweaty (a.) Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
Sweaty (a.) 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.
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.
The road which makes a small sweep. -- Sir W. Scott.
Sweep (n.) One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.
Sweep (n.) (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.
Sweep (n.) (Naut.) 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.) (Naut.) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
Sweep (n.) (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
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. [Variously written swape, sweep, swepe, and swipe.]
Sweep (n.) (Card Playing) 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.) pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
Sweep net, A net for drawing over a large compass.
Sweep of the tiller (Naut.), A circular frame on which the tiller traverses.
Swept (imp. & p. p.) of Sweep.
Sweeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweep.
Sweep (v. t.) 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.
I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. -- Isa. xiv. 23.
Sweep (v. t.) 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.
The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies. -- Isa. xxviii. 17.
I have already swept the stakes. -- Dryden.
Sweep (v. t.) To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
Their long descending train, With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain. -- Dryden.
Sweep (v. t.) To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
And like a peacock sweep along his tail. -- Shak.
Sweep (v. t.) To strike with a long stroke.
Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre. -- Pope.
Sweep (v. t.) (Naut.) To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
Sweep (v. t.) To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
To sweep a mold or To sweep up a mold (Founding), To form the sand into a mold by a templet, instead of compressing it around the pattern.
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.) A wide scope; "the sweep of the plains" [syn: sweep, expanse].
Sweep (n.) Someone who cleans soot from chimneys [syn: chimneysweeper, chimneysweep, sweep].
Sweep (n.) Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge [syn: slam, sweep]
Sweep (n.) A long oar used in an open boat [syn: sweep, sweep oar].
Sweep (n.) (American football) An attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line [syn: end run, sweep].
Sweep (n.) A movement in an arc; "a sweep of his arm."
Sweep (v.) Sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience" [syn: brush, sweep].
Sweep (v.) Move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky" [syn: sweep, sail].
Sweep (v.) Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed" [syn: sweep, broom].
Sweep (v.) Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn: embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in].
Sweep (v.) To cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross, traverse, span, sweep].
Sweep (v.) Clean by sweeping; "Please sweep the floor."
Sweep (v.) Win an overwhelming victory in or on; "Her new show dog swept all championships."
Sweep (v.) Cover the entire range of.
Sweep (v.) Make a big sweeping gesture or movement [syn: swing, sweep, swing out].
Sweepage (n.) The crop of hay got in a meadow. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweeper (n.) 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.
Sweeper (n.) An employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
Sweeper (n.) A cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet [syn: carpet sweeper, sweeper].
Sweeper (n.) Little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body.
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. -- Sweep"ing*ly, adv. -- {Sweep"ing*ness, n.
Sweeping (a.) Taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide-sweeping view of the river."
Sweeping (a.) Ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction" [syn: sweeping, wholesale].
Sweeping (n.) The act of cleaning with a broom.
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. -- Heylin.
Sweepstake (n.) A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hacket.
Sweepstakes (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
Sweepstakes (n. 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.