Definition of wash

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Wash (v. t.) 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..

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Buck :: Buck (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Unwashed :: Unwashed (a.) Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.
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..
Lavatory :: Lavatory (n.) A place for washing.
Mercury :: Mercury (v. t.) To wash with a preparation of mercury.
Blackwash :: Blackwash (n.) A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..
Swash :: Swash (n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes..
Elutriate :: Elutriate (v. t.) To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing..
Gargarize :: Gargarize (v. t.) To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat..
Wash :: Wash (n.) A liquid dentifrice.
Foulard :: Foulard (n.) A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere..
Swingeing :: Swingebuckler (n.) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
Swash :: Swash (v. i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place..
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..
Lixiviation :: Lixiviation (n.) Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching..
Causally :: Causally (n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing..
Vat :: Vat (n.) A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.
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..
Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..
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