Word Meanings - SWEEPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
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- CARPET
packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be - CLEANSABLE
Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood. - OXYGENIZE
To oxidize. - CARPETBAG
A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - OXYGENATOR
An oxidizer. - OXYGENIC
Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen. - CARPETING
1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - SWEEPAGE
The crop of hay got in a meadow. - GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. - OXYGENIUM
The technical name of oxygen. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - GREATLY
1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden. - 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 - GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter. - CLEANSE
To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet - DEOXYGENATE
To deoxidize. - ENSWEEP
To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - DISOXYGENATE
To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize. - DEOXYGENIZE
To deoxidize. - PEASWEEP
The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.