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Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate. [Obs.] Shak.

Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless. He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation. Woodward.

Having or exhibiting surquedry; arrogant; insolent. [Obs.] Gower. James II. of Scot.

To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. C. Richardson (Dict.). All suddenly she swapt adown to ground. Chaucer.

To fall violently or noisily. [Obs.] Holinshed.

An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses. Crabb.

Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.

Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. Longfellow.

tant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.

fter his father. -- To take in with, to resort to. [Obs.] Bacon. -- To take on, to be violently affected; to express grief or pain in a violent manner. -- To take to. (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to evil practices. "If he does but take to you, . . . you will contract…

A rapid, violent gallop; an impetulous rush. Cleverland.

from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.

Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.

Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shak. That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings. Tennyson.

Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. -- Tem*pes"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tem*pes"tu*ous*ness, n. They saw the Hebrew leader, Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard. Longfellow.…

The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper.

Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. Terror seized the rebel host. Milton.

To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt. If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss. Shak.

Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. I rather would be Mævius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. Dryden.