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| Wash |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Washed (w&obreve]sht); p. pr. *** vb.
n. Washing.] [OE. waschen, AS. wascan] akin
to D. wasschen, G. waschen, OHG. wascan, Icel. *** Sw.
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To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or
rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of
cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash
the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool;
to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of
trees.
To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to
fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves
wash the shore.
To waste or abrade by the force of water in
motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
To remove by washing to take away by, or as by,
the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with
away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the
hands.
To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to
tint lightly and thinly.
To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel
washed with silver.
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To
perform the act of ablution.
To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in
water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in
water.
To bear without injury the operation of being
washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
To be wasted or worn away by the action of
water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea;
-- said of road, a beach, etc.
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The act of
washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a
quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea
or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part
of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the
washes in Lincolnshire.
Substances collected and deposited by the action
of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection
from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for
pigs.
The
fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
That with which anything is washed, or wetted,
smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
The blade of
an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water,
as a wave; also, the sound of it.
Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
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Washy;
weak.
Capable of being washed without injury]
washable; as, wash goods.
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To
cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances
containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through
or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing
soluble constituents.
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To
use washes, as for the face or hair.
To move with a lapping or swashing sound,
or the like; to lap; splash; as, to hear the water
washing.
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Gravel and other rock
débris transported and deposited by running water; coarse
alluvium.
The dry bed of an intermittent stream,
sometimes at the bottom of a cañon; as, the Amargosa
wash, Diamond wash; -- called also dry
wash.
The upper surface of a
member or material when given a slope to shed water. Hence, a
structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water,
as a carriage wash in a stable.
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