Definition of washing

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Washing (n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.

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Strip :: Strip (n.) A trough for washing ore.
Urceole :: Urceole (n.) A vessel for water for washing the hands; also, one to hold wine or water..
Federalist :: Federalist (n.) An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington..
Lavation :: Lavation (n.) A washing or cleansing.
Washingtonian :: Washingtonian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence..
Lavatory :: Lavatory (n.) A basin or other vessel for washing in.
Washstand :: Washstand (n.) A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person..
Denudation :: Denudation (n.) The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water..
Lotion :: Lotion (n.) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair..
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..
Swash :: Swashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swas.
Causally :: Causally (n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing..
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them..
Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..
Steamer :: Steamer (n.) A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture..
Hushing :: Hushing (n.) The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming..
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..
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..
Dirt :: Dirt (n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing..
Washing :: Washing (n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.
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