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Tender; pitiful; weeping. [Obs.] Shak.

ent Roosevelt delivered a speech on "The Man with the Muck Rake," in which he deprecated sweeping and unjust charges of corruption against public men and corporations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to muck"rake`, in the above sense, and the noun muck"rak`er, to designate one so engaged, were speedi…

ual happiness; a mutual effort. Burke. A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Bentley.

Having no need. [Obs.] Weeping into the needless stream. Shak.

l of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted. [Obs.] His servants weeping, Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither. Addison.

ason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." Shak. "Outrageous panegyric." Dryden.

To exceed in weeping.

The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.

Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them. H. L. Scott.

n being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. Old warriors whose adored remains In weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains! Pope.

Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society. Beau & Fl.

A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the fifth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. Scavenger beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle. -- Sca…

in dipping or shoveling. Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. -- Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

A mop for sweeping ovens; a malkin.

Show; appearance; figure; semblance. [Obs.] Spenser. His flatterers made semblant of weeping. Chaucer.

Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Of or pertaining to society; social. The all-sweeping besom of societarian reformation. Lamb.

nder the sun. Chaucer. His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping. Macaulay.

To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

The act of sweeping.