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Wash 1

Definition: 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.

Wash 2

Definition: 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.

Wash 3

Definition: To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

Wash 4

Definition: 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.

Wash 5

Definition: To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

Wash 6

Definition: To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.

Wash 7

Definition: To perform the act of ablution.

Wash 8

Definition: To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.

Wash 9

Definition: To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.

Wash 10

Definition: 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.

Wash 11

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

Wash 12

Definition: 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.

Wash 13

Definition: Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.

Wash 14

Definition: Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.

Wash 15

Definition: The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

Wash 16

Definition: A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

Wash 17

Definition: That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.

Wash 18

Definition: A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.

Wash 19

Definition: A liquid dentifrice.

Wash 20

Definition: A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.

Wash 21

Definition: A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.

Wash 22

Definition: A thin coat of color, esp. water color.

Wash 23

Definition: A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

Wash 24

Definition: The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.

Wash 25

Definition: The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.

Wash 26

Definition: Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

Wash 27

Definition: Washy; weak.

Wash 28

Definition: Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

wash 29

Definition: the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

wash 30

Definition: any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"

wash 31

Definition: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

wash 32

Definition: a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

wash 33

Definition: a thin coat of water-base paint

wash 34

Definition: the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

wash 35

Definition: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

wash 36

Definition: the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway); "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water"

wash 37

Definition: to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day"

wash 38

Definition: cleanse (one''s body) with soap and water

wash 39

Definition: wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"

wash 40

Definition: make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows"

wash 41

Definition: form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"

wash 42

Definition: remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent; "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains"

wash 43

Definition: apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

wash 44

Definition: clean with some chemical process

wash 45

Definition: cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!"

wash 46

Definition: separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

wash 47

Definition: move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge"

wash 48

Definition: admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won''t wash in traffic court"

wash 49

Definition: be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?"

 

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