ensweep
English
Verb
ensweep (third-person singular simple present ensweeps, present participle ensweeping, simple past and past participle enswept)
- (transitive) To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly.
- 1730, James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- A blaze of meteors shoot: ensweeping first
The lower skies
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ensweep”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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