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imp. & p. p. of Sweep.

Narrowed at the forward end; -- said of an automobile frame when the side members are closer together at the forward end than at the rear.

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. Longfellow.

An inswept frame. [Colloq.]

l over the vessel without breaking. -- A clean breach implies that everything on deck is swept away. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

ts, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke.

for another quantity of the solvent. Piston displacement (Mech.), the volume of the space swept through, or weight of steam, water, etc., displaced, in a given time, by the piston of a steam engine or pump.

m; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. Whose false foundation waves have swept away. Spenser.

is held while the tide is rising. -- Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood. -- Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate. -- Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark. -- Flood tide, the ris…

hearth burning before him. Jer. xxxvi. 22. Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak.

is, that the distance from the pole to the generating point varies inversely as the angle swept over by the radius vector.

et with respect to the sun is an ellipse, the sun being in one of the foci. (2) The areas swept over by a vector drawn from the sun to a planet are proportioned to the times of describing them. (3) The squares of the times of revolution of two planets are in the ratio of the cubes of their mean distances. -- Law bindi…

ure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to bewilder. His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter. Sterne. Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females. Sir. W. Scott.…

By; beyond; as, he ran past. The alarum of drums swept past. Longfellow.

multitudes. The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies. Isa. xxviii. 17. I have already swept the stakes. Dryden.