Definition of wash

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Wash (v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

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Basin :: Basin (n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses..
Buddle :: Buddle (v. i.) To wash ore in a buddle.
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..
Scrubber :: Scrubber (n.) A gas washer. See under Gas.
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..
Soapberry Tree :: Soapberry tree () Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree..
Skeet :: Skeet (n.) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck..
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..
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..
Washy :: Washy (a.) Watery; damp; soft.
Washed :: Washed (a.) Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.
White-limed :: White-limed (a.) Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
Wincing :: Wincing (n.) The act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a wince..
Whitewashing :: Whitewashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whitewas.
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard..
Washhouse :: Washhouse (n.) An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry..
Swat :: Swashy (a.) Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash..
Laver :: Laver (n.) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.
Monteith :: Monteith (n.) A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
Commode :: Commode (n.) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet..
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