English English Dictionary

Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.

Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult.

A native or inhabitant of Sweden.

A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.

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.

Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.

The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.

Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.

The language of Swedes.

An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.

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.

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.

To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.

To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.

To strike with a long stroke.

To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.

To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.

To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.

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.

To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.