Word Meanings - WHISKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Sweeping along lightly. 2. Large; great.
Related words: (words related to WHISKING)
- 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.