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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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Lixiviate :: Lixiviate (v. t.) To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances..

Wash :: Wash (n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once..

Lavatory :: Lavatory (n.) A basin or other vessel for washing in.

Washable :: Washable (a.) Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.

Lotion :: Lotion (n.) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair..

Swashbuckler :: Swash (n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

Swash :: Swash (v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work..

Rotunda :: Rotunda (a.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington..

By-wash :: By-wash (n.) The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water..

Scrub :: Scrub (v. t.) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate..

Vat :: Vat (n.) A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.

Wishy-washy :: Wishy-washy (n.) A weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash.

Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment..

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..

Washerwoman :: Washerwoman (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.

Blackwash :: Blackwash (n.) A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny..

Wash-off :: Wash-off (a.) Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.

Accretion :: Accretion (n.) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark..

Concentrate :: Concentrate (v. t.) To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to dilute..

Whitewash :: Whitewash (v. t.) To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten with whitewash.