To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
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.
To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
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 away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents.
To perform the act of ablution.
To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
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.
To use washes, as for the face or hair.
To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing.
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.
The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
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.
Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
A liquid dentifrice.
The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
Gravel and other rock débris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium.
A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a cañon; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash; - called also dry wash.
A thin coat of metal applied in a liquid form on any object, for beauty or preservation; - called also washing.
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 wash in a stable.
an action or situation in which the gains and losses are equal, or closely compensate each other.
the disturbance of the air left behind in the wake of a moving airplane or one of its parts.
Washy; weak.
Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand
A measure equal to a hand’s breadth, - four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
Side; part; direction, either right or left.
Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad, or running hand. Hence, a signature.
Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; - usually in the plural.
Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer’s hand, or when not new.
Rate; price.
That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once
The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
A gambling game played by American Indians, consisting of guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or the like, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.
To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.
To manage; as, I hand my oar.
To seize; to lay hands on.
To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
To furl; - said of a sail.
To coöperate.
