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Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish. Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left. Sir M. Hale.

To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.

To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.

els, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the other wheels.

following the stag, erelong slew him. Spenser. The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep. Milton.

y or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence. Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2 Sam. xii. 21. Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.

e satisfaction. "Ye shall eat your fill." Lev. xxv. 19. I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill. Shak.

To search by raking or sweeping. Swift.

against undue exposure to an enemy's direct fire, by means of the fire from other works, sweeping the ground in its front. -- Flank en potence (Mil.), any part of the right or left wing formed at a projecting angle with the line. -- Flank files, the first men on the right, and the last on the left, of a company, batt…

To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope.

comes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water. My face is foul with weeping. Job. xvi. 16.

n a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew. Ganglion cell, a nerve cell. See Illust. under Bipolar.

To shed tears; to weep. [Obs.] Whose eyes do never give But through lust and laughter. Shak.

ris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.

To weep; to cry; to lament. [Obs. or Scot.] [Written also greit.] Spenser.

One who weeps or mourns. [Obs.]

See Greet, to weep.

To restrain one's self; to refrain. His dauntless heart would fain have held From weeping, but his eyes rebelled. Dryden.

The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

Incapable of weeping. [Obs.] Bailey.