SPage 1025
- English Word Sway Definition To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
- English Word Sway Definition To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
- English Word Sway Definition To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
- English Word Sway Definition To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
- English Word Sway Definition To have weight or influence.
- English Word Sway Definition To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
- English Word Sway Definition The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
- English Word Sway Definition Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
- English Word Sway Definition Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
- English Word Sway Definition Rule; dominion; control.
- English Word Sway Definition A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
- English Word Sway-backed Definition Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.
- English Word Sway-bracing Definition The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents its swaying.
- English Word Swayed Definition of Sway
- English Word Swayed Definition Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse.
- English Word Swayful Definition Able to sway.
- English Word Swaying Definition of Sway
- English Word Swaying Definition An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.
- English Word Sweal Definition To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame.
- English Word Sweal Definition To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.