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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wash \Wash\ (w[o^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Washed} (w[o^]sht); p. pr & vb n. {Washing}.] [OE. waschen, AS wascan akin to D. wasschen G. waschen, OHG. wascan Icel. & Sw vaska, Dan. vaske, and perhaps to E. water. [root]150.] 1. 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. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. --Matt. xxvii. 24. 2. 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. Fresh-blown roses washed with dew. --Milton. [The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist. --Longfellow. 3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wash \Wash\, v. i. 1. To perform the act of ablution. Wash in Jordan seven times. --2 Kings v. 10. 2. To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. ``She can wash and scour.'' --Shak. 3. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as some calicoes do not wash. [Colloq.] 4. 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wash \Wash\, n. 1. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once. 2. 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. ``The Wash of Edmonton so gay.'' --Cowper. These Lincoln washes have devoured them --Shak. 3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled. --Mortimer. 4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs. --Shak. 5. (Distilling) a The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted. b A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. --B. Edwards. 6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically: a A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. b A liquid dentifrice. c A liquid preparation for the hair; as a hair wash. d A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion. e (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color. j A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation. 7. (Naut.) a The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water. b The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc 8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also the sound of it 9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.] {Wash ball}, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands or face. --Swift. {Wash barrel} (Fisheries), a barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting. {Wash bottle}. (Chem.) a A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them especially by removing soluble constituents. b A washing bottle. See under {Washing}. {Wash gilding}. See {Water gilding}. {Wash leather}, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wash \Wash\, a. 1. Washy; weak. [Obs.] Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper. --Beau. & Fl 2. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as wash goods. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wash \Wash\, v. t. 1. To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide. 2. To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it esp. by removing soluble constituents. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wash \Wash\, v. i. 1. To use washes, as for the face or hair. 2. To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like to lap; splash; as to hear the water washing. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wash \Wash\, n. 1. [Western U. S.] (Geol.) a Gravel and other rock d['e]bris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium. b An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a mountain. 2. The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a ca[~n]on; as the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash; -- called also {dry wash}. [Western U. S.] 3. (Arch.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wash n 1: a thin coat of water-base paint 2: the work of washing or cleansing [syn: {washing}] 3: (western United States) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) [syn: {dry wash}] 4: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller [syn: {slipstream}, {airstream}, {race}, {backwash}] 5: a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other [syn: {wash drawing}] 6: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering [syn: {laundry}, {washables}] 7: (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out v 1: clean with some chemical process [syn: {rinse}] 2: cleanse (one's body) with soap and water [syn: {lave}] 3: cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!" [syn: {launder}] 4: move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge" 5: be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?" 6: move by or as if by water; "The footbridge washed away during the floods" 7: separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) 8: apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to 9: remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent: "he washed the dirt from his coat" [syn: {wash-off}, {wash away}] 10: form by erosion: "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside" 11: make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" [syn: {moisten}, {dampen}] 12: to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking, as of a cat; "The cat washes several times a day"
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