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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Guilding :: Guilding (n.) The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold..
Washing :: Washing (n.) The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash..
Washing :: Washing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Was.
Wash :: Wash (n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface..
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency..
Buck :: Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed..
Clout :: Clout (n.) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
Career :: Career (n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier..
Squill :: Squilgee (n.) Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc..
Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing..
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..
Wash :: Wash (n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
Abluent :: Abluent (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
Van :: Van (v. t.) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel..
Buddle :: Buddle (n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions..
Swash :: Swash (n.) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
Washermen :: Washermen (pl. ) of Washerma.
Autotype :: Autotype (n.) A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.
Swasher :: Swashbuckler (n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer..
White :: White (v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.
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