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A bow-saw.

The crop of hay got in a meadow. [Prov. Eng.]

One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper. It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy. Huxley.

rce; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation. -- Sweep"ing*ly, adv. -Sweep"ing*ness, n.

Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.

A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.

One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.

Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.

taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.

Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6. [Obs.]

Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. Sweet-scented shrub (Bot.), a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.

A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.

Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, or throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.

rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.

To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.

The act of making sweet.

A lover of mistress.

Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.