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Wash (wŏsh), v. t.
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When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and
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2. To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
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Fresh-blown roses
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3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
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4. To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with
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Arise, and be baptized, and
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The tide will
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5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
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6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
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7. To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
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8. To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents.
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Wash, v. i. 1. To perform the act of ablution.
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2. To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. “She can
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3. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash. [Colloq.]
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4. To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
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5. To use washes, as for the face or hair.
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6. To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing.
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7. to be accepted as true or valid; to be proven true by subsequent evidence; -- usually used in the negative; as, his alibi won't wash. [informal]
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Wash, n. 1. 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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2. A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. “The
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3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
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4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
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5. (Distilling)
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6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
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7. (Naut.)
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8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
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9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.]
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10. [Western U. S.] (Geol.)
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11. The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a cañon; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash; -- called also dry wash. [Western U. S.]
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12. (Arch.) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water. Hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water, as a carriage
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13. an action or situation in which the gains and losses are equal, or closely compensate each other.
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14. (Aeronautics) the disturbance of the air left behind in the wake of a moving airplane or one of its parts.
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Wash, a. 1. Washy; weak. [Obs.]
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Their bodies of so weak and
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2. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods. [Colloq.]
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