SPage 1028
- English Word Swede Definition A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.
- English Word Swedenborgian Definition 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.
- English Word Swedenborgian Definition Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.
- English Word Swedenborgianism Definition The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.
- English Word Swedish Definition Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
- English Word Swedish Definition The language of Swedes.
- English Word Sweeny Definition An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.
- English Word Sweep Definition 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.
- English Word Sweep Definition 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.
- English Word Sweep Definition To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- English Word Sweep Definition To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- English Word Sweep Definition To strike with a long stroke.
- English Word Sweep Definition To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
- English Word Sweep Definition To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
- English Word Sweep Definition To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
- English Word Sweep Definition 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.
- English Word Sweep Definition To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.
- English Word Sweep Definition The act of sweeping.
- English Word Sweep Definition The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
- English Word Sweep Definition The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.