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Word Meanings - WHISKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Sweeping along lightly. 2. Large; great.

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  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • ALONGSIDE
    Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
  • GREAT-GRANDSON
    A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
    The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
  • SWEEPAGE
    The crop of hay got in a meadow.
  • GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
    The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • LARGE-ACRED
    Possessing much land.
  • 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.
  • SWEEP-SAW
    A bow-saw.
  • SWEEPY
    Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
  • GREAT-GRANDCHILD
    The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • GREATNESS
    1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
  • GREAT
    great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
  • LARGE-HANDED
    Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
  • LARGE-HEARTED
    Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
  • SWEEPWASHER
    One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.
  • GREAT WHITE WAY
    Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
  • ENSWEEP
    To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
  • INGREAT
    To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
  • KALONG
    A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
  • FOOL-LARGESSE
    Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
  • PEASWEEP
    The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.

 

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