Definition of sway

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Sway (n.) Rule; dominion; control.

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Power :: Power (n.) The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion..
Swing :: Swing (v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open..
Swing :: Swing (n.) Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
Streen :: Streel (v. i.) To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion..
Swagger :: Swagger (v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner..
Misway :: Misway (n.) A wrong way.
Sway :: Sway (n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
Waggle :: Waggle (v. i.) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle..
Rack :: Rack (v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse..
Swaying :: Swayed (imp. & p. p.) of Swa.
Sway :: Sway (n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
Swing :: Swing (n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing..
Top-block :: Top-block (n.) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast..
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter..
Unswayable :: Unswayable (a.) Not capable of being swayed.
Waddle :: Waddle (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles..
Sawyer :: Sawyer (n.) A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current..
Potentate :: Potentate (a.) One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch..
Swaying :: Swayful (a.) Able to sway.
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