Definition of wash

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Wash (n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color..

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Washerman :: Washerman (n.) A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others..
Sweepy :: Sweepwasher (n.) One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used..
Wash-off :: Wash-off (a.) Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.
Backwash :: Backwash (v. i.) To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
Scumble :: Scumble (v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect..
Run :: Run (a.) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing..
Lave :: Lave (v. i.) To bathe; to wash one's self.
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..
Wash :: Wash (n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation..
Washbowl :: Washbowl (n.) A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc..
Wash :: Wash (n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
Unwashen :: Unwashen (a.) Not washed.
Lixiviation :: Lixiviation (n.) Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching..
Splenalgia :: Spleget (n.) A cloth dipped in a liquid for washing a sore.
Abluent :: Abluent (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
Rockweed :: Rockweed (n.) Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus..
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..
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..
Blackwash :: Blackwash (n.) A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
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