sweeps (sweps)

pl. The arms of a mill. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] sweep-saw (swēp'sa), n. A saw with a thin blade in a frame or bow, capable of cutting in a sweep or curve; a bow-saw or turning-saw. sweep-seine (swep'sān), n. A large seine for making a wide sweep in drawing. sweep-seining (swep'sa"ning), n. The act or proce of sweeping a net, paid out from the IMG:content-2617.png:[blocks in formation] natural taste, as distinguished from a taste - Sweet fucus. Same as sea - belt. - Sweet glovet, a perfumed glove of any sort: a phrase often occurring schedthat is stale, sour, or rancid. ules, etc., of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ther was brid and ale suete , For riche men ther ete. King Horn (E. E. T. S.), L. 1257. Thei [apples] ben righte swete and of gode Savour. Mandeville, Travels, p. 49. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. Milton , Comus, 1. 47. stern of a boat, which describes a circle start- ing from and returning to the shore, one end 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; perfumed. of the rope being left on shore and the other brought in by the boat. The net is then hauled in by the men on shore.