Definition of wash

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

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Whitewash :: Whitewash (n.) A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime..
Wash :: Wash (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water..
Dirt :: Dirt (n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing..
Chinook :: Chinook (n.) One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians..
Lool :: Lool (n.) A vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.
Swash :: Swash (n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
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..
Gargarize :: Gargarize (v. t.) To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat..
Hutch :: Hutch (v. t.) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth..
Dishwasher :: Dishwasher (n.) One who, or that which, washes dishes..
Swash :: Swashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swas.
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral..
Blackwash :: Blackwash (n.) A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
Longitude :: Longitude (n.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74ยก or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich..
Collutory :: Collutory (n.) A medicated wash for the mouth.
Rove :: Rove (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
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..
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..
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