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Van :: Van (n.) A shovel used in cleansing ore.

Cleanly :: Cleanly (superl.) Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc..

Hairbrush :: Hairbrush (n.) A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

Cleansing :: Cleansing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleans.

Boil :: Boil (v. t.) To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes..

Swab :: Swab (n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc..

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

Syringed :: Syringe (n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc..

Flush :: Flush (n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes..

Mundificative :: Mundificative (a.) Cleansing.

Purgatory :: Purgatory (a.) Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.

Clysmic :: Clysmic (a.) Washing; cleansing.

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.

Burring Machine :: Burring machine () A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances..

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

Detersiveness :: Detersiveness (n.) The quality of cleansing.

Mundation :: Mundation (n.) The act of cleansing.

Birdlime :: Birdlime (n.) An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares..

Dress :: Dress (v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them..

Twilly :: Twilly (n.) A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy..

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