Definition of wash

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Wash (v. t.) 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..

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Rockweed :: Rockweed (n.) Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus..
Soap :: Soap (v. t.) To rub or wash over with soap.
Wash :: Wash (v. i.) 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..
Smithsonian :: Smithsonian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports..
Wash :: Wash (n.) 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..
Monument :: Monument (n.) A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions..
Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining..
Edulcorate :: Edulcorate (v. t.) To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify..
Tossing :: Tossing (n.) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall..
Vat :: Vat (n.) A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..
Draff :: Draff (n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A jig for washing ore.
Levant :: Levant (n.) The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
Wash :: Wash (n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it..
Dolly :: Dolly (n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer..
Pan :: Pan (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan..
Indelible :: Indelible (a.) That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory..
Wash :: Wash (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters..
Washdish :: Washdish (n.) A washbowl.
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