单词 | wash |
释义 | washn. I. Act of washing. 1. a. gen. An act or process of washing or cleansing with water. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [noun] > an act of washing wash1663 souse1741 rinse1837 wash-out1877 slush1902 sloosh1919 1663 S. Tuke Adventures of Five Hours i. 2 The Blemish once received, no Wash is good For stains of Honor, but th' Offenders blood. 1666 W. Sancroft Lex Ignea 41 A Baptism in Reserve, a Wash for all our Sins. 1921 N.E.D. at Wash Mod. This table needs a wash. I am going to give the dog a wash. b. An act of washing oneself, esp. of washing one's hands and face. wash and brush-up, a quick wash together with a tidying of one's hair; also transferred, and as v. transitive and intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > an act of wash1839 washdown1849 head dip1886 wash-up1887 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash one's body or part of it [verb (transitive)] > wash and tidy wash and brush-up1941 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash oneself [verb (intransitive)] > and tidy oneself to freshen up1882 wash and brush-up1959 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby vii. 64 Mind you take care, young man, and get first wash. 1852 C. B. Mansfield Paraguay, Brazil, & Plate (1856) 89 Next morning,..after a wash in a neighbouring rivulet,..we started again. 1872 Gentleman's Mag. June 722 We must have a wash..and eat some breakfast. 1899 E. W. Hornung Amateur Cracksman 31 We must have a wash-and-brush-up before we go,—for I'm as black as your boot. 1910 W. E. Beet Rise Papacy iii. 138 The Patriarch of Antioch appeared on the scene, and..without waiting for a wash and change of raiment, proceeded to hold a Council of his own. 1912 ‘R. Andom’ On Tour with Troddles (new ed.) ix. 62 What we really did want was a wash and a brush up, with a good substantial meal to follow. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock iii. i. 107 I had to have a wash and brush up. 1941 Vogue June 58/2 Wash-and-brush-up your face.: because creams are rationed and soap is not. 1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest v. 98 The cockroach ambled about for a bit and then stopped for a quick wash and brush-up. 1959 G. Mitchell Man who grew Tomatoes i. 10 I'll wash and brush up, as they say, and be down in ten minutes. 1978 R. H. Lewis Antiquarian Bks. viii. 167 Most old books in for rebinding have an automatic ‘wash and brush-up’..before getting decked out in their new finery. 2. a. An act, spell, or task of washing clothes or other textile articles; the process of washing undergone by clothes or the like. (to be lost, damaged, etc.) in the wash, in course of being washed. (to be) at the wash, of clothes, etc., sent away to be washed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] scouring1464 washing1480 wash1704 handwashing1793 dobeying1929 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > being washed [phrase] at (the) washinga1637 (to be) at the wash1813 (to be lost, damaged, etc.) in the wash1876 c1050 Glosses on De Consuetudine Monachorum in Anglia XIII. 441 Vestimentorum ablutio, reafa wæsc.] 1704 London Gaz. No. 3981/4 Stolen..Wearing Linen from the Wash. 1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 56 The packet arrived at so late an hour..and our shirts being at the wash as usual, we did not leave Lisbon till the 20th. 1814 Family Politics iv. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 230 I was going to pull it [a gown] to pieces for the wash. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. iii. 30 It returned from the wash. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. viii. 133 Ah, you're a-staring at the pocket-handkerchiefs... We've just looked 'em out ready for the wash. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xli. 23 This objection, and a great many others, founded upon certain articles of dress being at the wash,..were overcome by Kit. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xi. 85 Mrs. Bute, who knew how many days the sirloin of beef lasted at the Hall; how much linen was got ready at the great wash [etc.]. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. i. 13 Though she may have done a hard day's wash. 1876 E. Jenkins Blot on Queen's Head 26 You mark their linen ‘Empress's Crown Hotel’, and our linen ‘Queen's Inn’... What if they get mixed in the wash? b. concrete. The quantity of clothes or other textile articles washed (or set apart to be washed) on one occasion. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > clothes to be or that have been washed buck1532 wash1789 snow1811 washing1843 wash-linen1901 laundry1916 dry cleaning1930 1789 New London Mag. Apr. 224/1 The apprehension of [several people]..for stealing a whole wash of wet linen. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxii. 187 In this yard, a wash of sheets and tablecloths tried..to get itself dried on a line or two. 1889 C. E. Cameron Lost Wife I. i. 7 The family wash..flutters gracefully in the breeze. 1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story xvii. 268 The native women having a custom..of taking in the wash before dark. 1914 M. R. Rinehart K (1915) iii. 35 Where her aunt..was hanging out the week's wash of table linen. c. plural. Apparently used (after German wäsche) for: Washable articles of apparel, body-linen. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > washable washes1827 washable1951 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. L. Tieck in German Romance II. 139 She took special heed to pack up her clothes and washes with her own hands. d. In figurative phrase to come out in the wash: (of the truth) to be revealed, become clear; (of a situation, events, etc.) to be resolved or put right eventually. Cf. washing n. 8a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > solve [phrase] > be solved to come out in the wash1903 society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclosing or revealing [phrase] > (of the truth) to be revealed to come out in the wash1903 1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 196 An' it all went into the laundry, But it never came out in the wash. 1917 P. G. Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet ii. 29 A sort of fate, what?.. Heredity, and so forth. What's bred in the bone will come out in the wash. 1930 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Ten Creeks Run xxi. 351 That scandal has been such a long toime comin' out in the wash that you must have been mistaken. 1943 N. Coward This Happy Breed ii. i. 53 Ethel:..I thought everything was going to be all right... Frank: Don't worry, old girl, it'll all come out in the wash. 1947 ‘N. Blake’ Minute for Murder vii. 145 ‘How on earth could Bill know?’.. ‘Oh, well, it'll all come out in the wash, no doubt.’ 1971 J. R. L. Anderson Reckoning in Ice vii. 147 When it all comes out in the wash—if it does—I suppose the company will meet our fees. 1978 J. Dunn in C. Hookway & P. Pettit Action & Interpr. 161 All human scientists..practise in the fond hope that the deficiencies of description or the errors and gaps in the intelligibility of record will all come out in the wash. 3. A washing with some liquid for the purpose of producing a particular effect; a liquid preparation used or intended to be used in this manner. a. A medicinal lotion. (The word suggests the use of liquid in somewhat larger quantity than is implied by lotion.)black wash, yellow wash: various liquid preparations of mercury for application to ulcers or to the skin in eruptive diseases. Cf. whitewash n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > lotion or bath > [noun] lotion?a1425 lavatoryc1475 washing?1541 bath1542 lolion1549 lavament1598 lavature1601 irrigation1617 wash1626 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for ulcers > mineral-derived lotion black wash1805 yellow wash1849 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §757 [Try] whether Children may not haue some Wash, or Some thing to make their Teeth Better, and Stronger? 1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood iv. ii My eyes are none of the best since I have used the last new wash of mercury-water. 1697 T. Tryon Way to Health (ed. 3) xviii. 409 There are many various things..prescribed by Physicians..as Washes, etc., to preserve the Teeth and Gums. 1732 H. Fielding Mock Doctor iv The doctor, with a sort of wash, wash'd her tongue 'till he set it agoing. 1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 572 I tried a variety of ointments and washes, but without deriving any material benefit from their use. 1828 Lancet 16 Feb. 717/1 The employment of yellow wash (a solution of oxymuriate of mercury in lime water) was recommended. 1828 Lancet 16 Feb. 732/2 The calomel and lime water, known by the name of the black wash. 1849 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica (ed. 3) I. 838 Lotio nigra... Black Wash. 1849 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica (ed. 3) I. 839 Lotio flava... Yellow or Phagedenic Wash. 1850 R. Reece Med. Guide (ed. 17) 557 Milk, so frequently employed by nurses as a wash in these cases, by turning sour on the part, often excites fresh irritation. 1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 117 Externally, when freely diluted, liquor potassæ may be employed as a wash in some chronic skin disorders. b. A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.Very common in the 17–18th centuries; now chiefly Historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > lotions and liquids waterOE maiden milk?a1425 May-dew?a1425 milk of almondsa1425 maidens' milk?c1450 lac Virginis1477 surflingc1555 surfle1593 virgin's milk1600 lotion1606 washa1627 beauty water1675 mercury-water1676 beauty wash1706 Kalydor1824 skin tonic1863 flower-water1886 Limacol1936 moisture lotion1957 toning lotion1960 toner1970 1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat iv. ii. sig. Iv These are perfum'd too, Of the Roman wash. 1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 146 No Cabinets with curious Washes, Bladders and perfumed Plashes [are here]. 1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso iii. 55 All manner of Washes, Almond-water, and Mercury-water for the Complexion. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 112 Her Cheeks as smooth as Silk; Are polish'd with a wash of Asses Milk. 1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer i. ii. 10 I need..no Hart's-horn for my Head, nor Wash for my Complexion. 1735 A. Pope Of Char. of Women 8 Narcissa's nature, tolerably mild, To make a Wash, would hardly stew a Child. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vi. 55 They were making a wash for the face. Washes of all kinds I had a natural antipathy to; for I knew that instead of mending the complexion they spoiled it. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 129 I know how to make washes and creams for the ladies' faces. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. vi. 123 The box..contained—not papers regarding the conspiracy—but my lady's wigs, washes, and rouge-pots. 1860 All Year Round 31 Mar. 531 Pure soft water is the truest beauty wash. c. A liquid applied to the hair to alter its colour, to impart smoothness, or to promote growth. Now chiefly Historical, except in hair-wash. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [noun] lye1556 lotium1595 lavature1601 wash1670 lavatory1694 hair-oil1810 marrow oil1855 hairdressing1907 haircare1935 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [noun] > colours wash1670 permanent dye1815 blondine1888 hair lightener1892 washable distemper1894 reng1901 tint1921 blue rinse1924 rinse1928 permanent tint1960 powder colour1966 toner1966 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 84 They dry their haire in the Sun after they haue washed it in a certain wash. 1859 Habits Good Society ii. 118 Essences, powders, pastes, washes for the hair, washes for the skin, recal the days of one's grandmothers. d. A liquid preparation used to protect plants against pests or disease. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > protectant or safener medication1626 medicating1707 protectant1876 wash1921 safener1933 1921 Discovery May 130/1 The providing of suitable sprays and washes, and other material connected with the checking of plant pests. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 2081/1 Other washes have had to be derived for use against it [sc. the red spider mite]. 1984 Which? Apr. 166/3 Dirt or discoloration by lichen and algae on a wall..often isn't harmful... Brush on a sterilising wash. e. = sheep-wash n. 1, 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep washing or dipping > sheep-wash or -dip sheep-watera1722 fag water1848 sheep-wash1858 sheep-dip1865 dip1871 wash1933 1933 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 25 Nov. 15/7 Wash, place and plant for washing sheep. 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry i. 25 In the older ‘dips’ and also in modern ‘sheep showers’, this is an adjoining draining pen to which sheep go after treatment with the ‘wash’ or ‘dip’. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > a mural painting > mural painting in watercolour waterwork1548 wash1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Wash or water colour. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Affrésco A Painters worke called wash or water-colours. b. Water-colour Painting. A broad thin layer of colour laid on by a continuous movement of the brush. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > wash wash1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Washing These Washes are usually given in equal Teints, or Degrees, throughout; which are afterwards brought down and soften'd over the Lights with fair Water. 1882 P. G. Hamerton Graphic Arts 84 Line and auxiliary washes are employed together in great variety. 1882 P. G. Hamerton Graphic Arts 86 At Florence there are some drawings by Cambiaso, in pen and wash. 1884 American 8 59 The beauty of the clear, broad wash. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 396 To produce dark clouds and rain with twelve or twenty successive washes. c. transferred. (Cf. wash v. 10b.) ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 92 In the middle of the leaues there riseth vp a yellow welt..shadowed all ouer with a wash of thin blew. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures xliv The valley was a plain of rich vegetation—long water-colour washes of yellow, and russet, and olive-green. 1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey (1886) 30 The intervening field of hills had fallen together into one broad wash of shadow. 1887 C. C. Harrison Bar Harbor Days xiii. 157 The summer sunshine fell like a wash of gold upon the shores of Mount Desert. 1891 G. E. Shelley in P. L. Sclater & G. E. Shelley Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. XIX. 456 Abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts white, with a very faint pink wash. d. A thin coat of water-colour or distemper spread over a wall or similar surface; a preparation used for this purpose. Cf. whitewash n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > paint > types of oila1536 primera1650 wash1698 paint oil1727 flat tint1821 flat1823 flatting1823 distemper1837 kalsomine1840 oil filler1846 calcimine1864 tube-colour1881 Ripolin1899 gloss enamel1908 gloss paint1926 jelly paint1958 silicate paint- 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 149 The Pillars from top to bottom being overlaid with a Golden Wash. 1826 J. M. Sherer Notes & Refl. Ramble Germany 127 The white and yellow washes on the walls looked fresh. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 348 The floors of the dining rooms..were coloured brown with a wash made of soot and small beer. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany viii. 105 The walls and pillars are all covered with a cold grey wash. 1884 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 426/1 Syra is almost entirely a white town, relieved now and again by a dash of yellow wash. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 547/1 The Pompeiian red..is only ‘water wash’. 5. A solution applied to metals for producing a counterfeit appearance of gold or silver. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [noun] > plating or coating applied to metal > types of goldOE wash1695 tinning1762 rolled gold1822 zopissa1862 nickel plate1873 coke finish1898 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 97 Imagination..stamps Value and Significancy upon his Face, and tells the People he is to go for so much; who oftentimes, being deceived by the wash, never examin the Metal, but take him upon Content. 1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 99 §3 Whosoever shall gild or silver, or shall, with any Wash or Materials capable of producing the Colour or Appearance of Gold or of Silver,..wash, case over, or colour any Coin whatsoever. II. Washing movement of water. 6. a. The washing of the waves upon the shore; surging movement of the sea or other water. Neptune's salt wash (quot. 1604) a bombastic periphrasis for ‘the sea’. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > breaking or dashing beating?c1225 jasch1513 wash1579 plash breach1582 breacha1616 breaking1647 plunge1781 jow1820 c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 179/35 Aquarum alluuio, wætera gewæsc. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 187/8 Alluuium, wæter~gewæsc.] 1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse (Arb.) 65 Truth is..harde, and cannot be broke with washe. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 149 Full thirtie times hath Phebus cart gone round Neptunes salt wash, and Tellus orb'd ground. View more context for this quotation 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 57 At the Entry into the Harbour only a Rock withstands the Washes. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 170 Their Carpenters..raised their Sides as well as they could, to keep off the Wash of the Sea. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 59 The wash and bash of Rains, and the violence of the Winter Winds, which are all fatal to this Ground. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Watchet Great quantities of alabaster, which fall down the cliffs here by the wash of the sea, are also sent to that city [sc. Bristol]. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 111 Katie walks By the long wash of Australasian seas Far off. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 5 Here we were..facing the westerly breeze, and pitching and rolling in the wash of the sea. 1872 J. D. Dana Corals & Coral Islands ii. 137 An important protection to the roof against the wash of the waters. 1894 H. Caine Manxman iv. xviii The wash of the waves touched his feet. b. (a) A surge raised in the sea or other piece of water by the passage of a vessel. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > surging, rolling, or heaving walteringc1400 washing?1473 rolling1485 walterc1540 surging1585 boil1805 welteringa1807 seethe1816 ride1822 whelm1842 welter1849 washing in1877 wash1883 1883 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Feb. 393/1 We were steaming along splendidly now, sending up a fine wash and swash along the banks. 1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 344/2 The steam-launch..sends a ‘wash’ along the shore. 1890 R. C. Lehmann Harry Fludyer 121 They were standing on the bank close to the water, and our boat raised a wash and wetted their feet. (b) The air current caused by the passage of an aircraft. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > a movement of air > a current of air > rush of air caused by moving body > behind moving body wake1851 wash1910 slipstream1913 wind-stream1929 1910 R. Ferris How it Flies xx. 474 Wash, the air~currents flowing out diagonally from the sides of a moving aeroplane. 1931 Flight 9 Oct. 1012/1 Certain modifications have been suggested which are intended to reduce the wash from the tailplane on the rudder during a flat spin. 1972 Daily Tel. 9 Aug. 4/8 It was not that the hundreds of [helicopter] pilots just overflew the nudist colony, but some flew so low they knocked over tents with the wash from their rotor blades. c. The sound of the surge of water. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > in movement wash1845 swash1847 souse1883 sloosh1919 1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific ix. 109 I..listened to the wash of the briny element on the beach. 1871 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) III. 177 The low wash of the sea very soothing. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule iii. 45 The wash of the ripples along the coast could be heard. 1918 Blackwood's Mag. June 717/2 The wash of the swell on rocks met my ear. d. Wear or attrition due to the action of waves. Also, the removal or displacement of soil by rain and running water (in quot. 1835, a place where this occurs); frequently in combination with preceding noun, as in rainwash n. at rain n.1 Compounds 2, sheet-wash n. at sheet n.1 Compounds 2, soil wash n. at soil n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material > wearing away > wear due to waves wash1791 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > movement of material > [noun] > by wind, water, or ice > movement by water washing?1473 scour17.. wash1835 rainwash1863 washing in1877 overwash1886 soil wash1926 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §78 To prevent that wash of the joints, that a very exposed situation might subject it to. 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. xxxii. 88 Bermuda grass, is used with great success to check the progress of a wash. 1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 412 Land lying in such a position as to protect it from wash..may be kept in constant cultivation. 1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in Writ. (1890) IV. 224 This three-arched bridge, still firm against the wash and wear of ages. 1913 Bull. Bureau of Soils U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 96. 19 This wasteful wash can be checked..by seeding the land to soil-binding grasses. 1959 G. H. Dury Face of Earth iii. 17 Rivers, surface-wash, and the downhill movement of solid rock combine to remove the substance of the land. 1970 R. J. Small Study of Landforms vi. 209 On the upper part of the slope the increased ‘erosional’ effect of wash away from the crest may tend to produce convexity of profile, and this may be exaggerated..by soil creep. 7. a. A sandbank or tract of land alternately covered and exposed by the sea; a portion of an estuary admitting of being forded or crossed on foot at low tide. †the Washes, applied spec. to the fordable portion of the estuary between Lincolnshire and Norfolk; hence used as a name for the estuary itself, now called the Wash. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > covered by sea washc1440 sea-common1584 salting1712 inksa1740 tide-land1787 sea-grounds1826 salting-mound1908 shore1919 tide-water1949 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > mouth or outfall > specific the Washesa1548 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 517/2 Wasche, watur or forde [v.r. forth], vadum. a1548 E. Hall Chron.: Edward VI 208 b King Edward..with all hast possible passed the wasshes..& came to the toune of Lynne. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. iii. xxvi. 71 As for the coast of Illyricum, it is pestred with more than a thousand [islands]; such is the nature of the sea, full of shelves and washes, with narrow chanels running betweene. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Passade The swift course of the flowing, and ebbing of the sea, on the Sandes, or Washes. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vi. 42 Halfe my power this night..are taken by the Tide, These Lincolne-Washes haue deuoured them. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 140 Upon the bay which Ptolomy names, Æstuariam Metaris, vulgarly called, the Washes, lieth the large Towne of Linne. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) V. 312 A washing begun in Baptisme,..Not such a washing, as the Washes have, which are those sands that are overflowed with the Sea at every Tide, and then lie dry. 1641 W. Prynne New Discov. Prelates Tyranny ii. 93 Hee departed out of Chester..his friends conducted them over the washes which are dangerous. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II ccliii, in Poems (1878) III. 200 Mowbray, who had gone all the way along Vpon these Washes..Now to goe further, thought a Quick-sand sprung Might swallow him. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1295 The washes, as in Lincolnshire; Æstuaria. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 119 There was no way now left, but that by the Washes into Lincolnshire. 1740 G. Lynn Let. 21 Apr. in Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) (1744) 41 689 An Easterly Breeze, which the Borderers on the Coast of Lincolnshire and Norfolk call Tide-weather, and may be occasioned by the Vapours arising from the Tides, which then cover a vast Wash of Sands in their Neighbourhood. 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 289 The great bay or wash, which forms the sole receptacle for the drainage waters, is so shallow. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > beach or foreshore strand plat1582 beach1600 playa1600 wash1614 foreshore1764 sublittoral1886 shore zone1921 midlittoral1948 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. iii. §7. 259 Euen at the very brincke and wash of the Sea. a1618 W. Raleigh Apol. Voy. Guiana 15 in Judicious & Sel. Ess. (1650) The Towne being seated upon the very Wash of the Sea. 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 410 Some Vessels have been cast so far on the Shore, that..they have been from Twenty to Thirty Yards dry from the Wash of the Shore. c. A low-lying tract of ground, often flooded, and interspersed with shallow pools and marshes. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] marsheOE fenc888 sladec893 moorOE mossOE marshlandlOE lay-fena1225 lay-mirea1225 moor-fenc1275 flosha1300 strother?a1300 marish1327 carrc1330 waterlanda1382 gaseync1400 quaba1425 paludec1425 mersec1440 sumpa1450 palus?1473 wash1483 morass1489 oozea1500 bog?a1513 danka1522 fell1538 soga1552 Camarine1576 gog1583 swale1584 sink1594 haga1600 mere1609 flata1616 swamp1624 pocosin1634 frogland1651 slash1652 poldera1669 savannah1671 pond-land1686 red bog1686 swang1691 slack1719 flowa1740 wetland1743 purgatory1760 curragh1780 squall1784 marais1793 vlei1793 muskeg1806 bog-pit1820 prairie1820 fenhood1834 pakihi1851 terai1852 sponge1856 takyr1864 boglet1869 sinkhole1885 grimpen1902 sphagnum bog1911 blanket bog1939 string bog1959 1483 Cath. Angl. 414/2 A Wesche, tesquum, in plurali tesqua. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. iii. i. 52 Within the washes and downes of Bœtis there is the town Nebrissa. 1794 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Cambr. 174 The crops on the interior commons and washes suffered extremely by these [wire worms, etc.] at first. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. viii. 144 Beyond Earith where now run the great washes of the Bedford Level. 1905 Athenæum 30 Dec. 902/1 The book records..the enclosure of commons and washes, and the continuous advance of building operations. d. Western U.S. The dry bed or portion of the bed of a winter torrent. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > bed of rakeeOE channela1387 cannela1400 watercourse1566 alveus1686 waterstead1775 fiumara1820 stream-way1822 wash1894 1894 Amer. Rev. Reviews Nov. 508/2 The center of it [Pachango Valley] is occupied with the broad sandy ‘wash’ characteristic of Southern California streams. 1897 Outing 29 582/1 Temescal Wash is a mile wide and composed of sand and prickly pear cactus. 1904 19th Cent. Mar. 431 The bed of the wash, or dry valley bed, up which we were driving, was planted with corn. 8. A tract of shallow water, a lagoon. Also, a shallow pool or runnel formed by the overflow of a river, a backwater; a stream running across a road. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > lagoon wash1530 lagoon1612 jheel1805 sea-lake1816 haff1859 pound1867 pond1926 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > [noun] > side-stream or backwater wash1530 by-river1577 by-stream1615 float1629 slew1708 by-rilla1711 marigot1759 off-stream1793 slougha1817 spreader1845 backwater1863 by-water1863 by-channel1864 billabong1865 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > other well streamOE letch1138 well strandc1429 pow1481 black water1483 wash1530 gravel-brook1591 spring branch1650 pour1790 water splash1820 chalk stream1829 understream1830 water feeder1831 quebrada1833 black spring1847 weir-stream1889 obsequent1895 anti-dip1900 resequent1901 misfit1910 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 287/1 Wasshe of water, marre. 1549 J. Leland Laboryouse Journey sig. D. ivv There is almost neyther cape nor baye, hauen, creke, or pere, ryuer or confluence of ryuers, breches, washes, lakes, meres, fenny waters, mountaynes, valleys, mores, [etc.]. 1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. C2v Iacke..away hee rydes singing towardes Enfield [from Edmonton], as he road, he met at the washes with the Miller. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxi. iv. 410 The raine that fell caused all the washes arising from the river Nilus which watered the grounds, to be bitter. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 248 Conveying themselves over the washes and marishes in flotes and troughes of hollowed trees. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. ii. 3 The other sort is digged vp in Fountaines, Riuers, Washes, Salt-Meeres, Sea-shoares. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxix. 52 The glorious Venetian Liberty..was planted in those Washes. 1658 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Hist. Venice ii. ii. 109 The Washes, or Moorish grounds, whereon the City of Venice is placed. 1673 Pleasant Treat. Witches 53 With whom he travelled, till at last they came to a great wash; where the man profered the Monk..to carry him over on his back. 1695 R. Thoresby Diary (1830) I. 295 We..had some showers, which raised the washes upon the road to that height that passengers from London that were upon the road swam. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 135 Till he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. iii. 41 The gutters were suddenly a torrent; the pavement a dancing wash. 1848 ‘F. Forester’ Field Sports U.S. & Brit. Provinces Amer. II. 28 The wide extent of salt marshes and meadows, interspersed with shallow land-locked washes and lagoons. 1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 Apr. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. v. 185 The housekeeper said it was not a stream, but only a ‘wash’. 1878 S. H. Miller & S. B. J. Skertchly Fenland vi. 158 Banks were made..enclosing a space called a Wash ‘for the waters to bed in’ in time of flood. 1884 Auk Oct. 356 I came to a wash a few feet wide and a foot or so deep. III. Water waste or liquid refuse. 9. Waste water discharged after use in washing; liquid refuse. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > waste water > that has been used for washing washingsc1330 washc1440 dishwater1484 dish-wash1592 rinsing1703 dish-washings1771 sindings1823 wash-water1853 bath-waste1936 c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1105 And all the wesshe out of thi bathis [L. balnearum..eluvies] The gardyn thorgh to go, therto no scathe is. 1797 E. Burke Third Let. Peace Regicide Directory France 70 If his Majesty had kept aloof from that wash and off-scouring of every thing that is low and barbarous in the world. 1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) iii. 39 He advised..that the sweepings from the cottage floors,..and the wash and boilings of all sorts, should be thrown into it [the pit]. 10. Scottish and northern. Stale urine: used as a detergent and as a mordant.Perhaps so called from its use in washing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > water or solutions > types of solution > urine lye14.. wash?a1505 chamber-lye1561 a1505 R. Henryson Sum Pract. Med. 48 in Poems (1981) 181 This vntment is rycht ganand for ȝour awin vs, With reid nettill seid in strang wesche to steip. 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 4146 Ane curtill queine..Of strang wesche scho will tak ane iurdane, And settis in the gyle-fat. 1548 R. Burrant Accustation George Wysehart sig. Eij Thou false hereticke [i.e. Wishart], saydest that holy water is not so good as washe, & such lyke. 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 429 Wesh, or wash, urine. 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. (1750) 65 Learn your goodame to kirn wash. 1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 368 Put into your Copper a little stale Wash, which will make your Wald spend, and raise your Colour. 1882 Crookes Dyeing 19 Stale urine..known in Lancashire as ‘lant’, and in Yorkshire as ‘wash’ or ‘weeting’, owes its action to the carbonate of ammonia formed by the decomposition of urea. 11. a. Kitchen swill or brewery refuse as food for swine: = hogwash n., pigwash n. (So German dialect wäsch.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > pig fodder > wash swine meat1434 hogwashc1450 swash1528 swillinga1529 swilla1570 wash1585 washmeat1688 slop1805 pigswill1862 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 51/1 Porcus colluuiaris,..an hogge fed with wash and draffe. 1592 N. Breton Pilgrimage Paradise (Grosart) 22/2 The sweetest wine, is but as swinish wash, Unto the water, of the well of life. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. ii. 9 The wretched, bloudie, and vsurping bore,..Swils your warme bloud like wash, and makes his trough, In your inboweld bosomes. View more context for this quotation 1665 R. South Serm. preached before Court 18 As different as the silence of an Archimedes in the study of a Problem, and the stilness of a Sow at her Wash. 1732 Acc. Workhouses 79 They have a pig or two brought in, to live upon their wash, and dregs. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 132/1 The hogs' food obtained by these street-folk, or, as I most frequently heard it called, the ‘wash’. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. iv. 57 She..pointed to the great bock of wash, and riddlings, and brown hulkage. 1896 S. Baring-Gould Dartmoor Idylls v. 129 When she carried the sow her pail of wash. b. Liquid food for other animals. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] mungc1380 battling1611 pabuluma1661 mess1738 wash1847 box food1886 premix1957 1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 96/2 The mangers extend along the whole length of each row of cattle; these are for the wash, or fluid food;..The wash..is very nutritious, as it contains the finer particles of the ground malt. IV. Alluvial deposit, and related uses. 12. a. Matter washed away by running water; solid particles carried away by a stream and deposited as sediment; alluvial deposit. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] siltc1440 warpingc1440 slitch?a1475 sleech1587 alluvium1665 sediment1685 sullage1691 warp1698 wash1707 washing1707 alluvion1731 silting1739 warp land1794 alluvial1818 siltage1876 flood-loam1880 putty1883 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 86 The Wash of Pastures, Fields, Commons, Roads [etc.]..where..Rain water hath a long time settled.., [is] of very great advantage to all sorts of Land. 1757 W. Burke Acct. European Settlem. Amer. II. vi. i. 60 In these plains, the soil augmented by the wash of the mountains for so many ages, is prodigiously fertile. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 8 A territory, the mere wash of three great rivers. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiii. 125 ‘Tastes like the wash of the river.’ ‘Are you so familiar with the flavour of the wash of the river?’ 1883 Mod. Rev. July 682 The land..has been built up out of the wash of ancient rivers and the sands of vanished seas. 1888 J. D. Whitney Names & Places 125 The debris-piles which stretch along the lower slopes of the ranges in the Cordilleran Region are locally known as washes. 1895 S. Baring-Gould Noémi x The course taken by the flood is easily recognisable by this fact—that it has left its wash on the tops of the plateau, where to the present day lies a film of caoline. b. Mining. ‘A formation of gravel, etc. over an abraded coal-seam’. ( Eng. Dial. Dict.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [noun] > material above > above coal roof1575 wark1707 top rock1803 wash1882 1882 Rep. Prec. Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) iii. 635 A..portion of the gravels or ‘wash’..is removed by..drifting, from underneath worthless or comparatively barren ground. 1888 W. E. Nicholson Gloss. Terms Coal Trade (E.D.D.) The Team Wash, which extends from Dunston on the river Tyne and, following the line of the river Team, to Tursdale,..and washes out several seams of coal in its course. V. Something from which gold can be extracted, and related uses. 13. a. (See quot. 1728.) ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > other metallic materials > [noun] > wash containing gold or silver sweepings washa1631 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 235 Of this Gold (this virtue of Repentance) there is no Mine in the Earth; in the books of Philosophers, no doctrine of Repentance; this Gold is for the most part in the washes. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Washings, or Washes, among Goldsmiths, Coiners, &c. are the Lotions whereby they recover the Particles of Gold and Silver out of the Ashes, Earths, Sweepings, &c. b. Soil from which gold (or diamonds) can be extracted by washing. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > suitable for washing wash-ore1653 wash-gravel1860 wash-dirt1862 washa1875 a1875 Hector in Offic. Handbk. N. Zealand 171 Gold was obtained on terraces along the sides of the valley, and in the river bed, the wash everywhere resting on water~worn bars and ledges of greenstone, [etc.]. 1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 143 We had extracted about a hundred~weight of wash. 1880 L. Fison & A. W. Howitt Kamilaroi & Kurnai 272 The great ‘reef washes’ of Ballarat are to be referred to the period of depression. 1886 N.Z. Herald 28 May 6/7 Last week, after driving about 80 feet, they struck payable wash. The wash is about two feet thick, lying on a slate bottom. 1890 Goldfields of Victoria 7 A company has been formed to work the ‘first floor’ which shows gold and tin in 10 feet of wash. 1897 Daily News 30 Nov. 9/5 Inverell Diamond Fields.—..101 carats of diamonds from five loads washed. Wash improves as development progresses. VI. Watery infusion or mixture. 14. Originally, the partially fermented wort remaining after ale or beer has been brewed from it; this wort as subjected to further fermentation in order that ardent spirit may be distilled from it. In later use, malt or other fermentable substance or mixture of substances steeped in water to undergo fermentation preparatory to distillation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > distilling > [noun] > wort wash1699 malt wash1729 pot ale1812 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Wash, After-wort. 1701 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 55 That 2d. per gallon be laid on all low wines or spirits drawn from brewers wash. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4624/1 An Act to Prohibit the Exportation of..Worts and Wash drawn from Malted Corn. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Wash, the distillers name for the fermentable liquor, made by dissolving the proper subject for fermentation and distillation in common water. 1815 Ann. Reg., Chron. 43 Besides the still, a considerable quantity of wash, and some low wines, were found. 1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 215 The molasses are conveyed by channels into a large vat in the still house, to which a certain quantity of water is added, and in this state the liquor is called ‘wash’. 1880 Act 43 & 44 Vict. c. 24 §5 (1) No person may, without being licensed..(b) Brew or make wort or wash. 1903 Times 22 Aug. 8/6 200 gallons of ‘wash’—liquor prepared with sugar, barley, flour, &c. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 23 Mar. 2/1 The liquid from which spirit is distilled is termed ‘wash’, and may be made from almost anything. If the distiller be righteous, it is made from malt, or, in the case of Irish whisky, malt and unmalted grain. 15. a. Washy or vapid liquor. Also figurative, vapid discourse or writing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > weak writing or discourse wash1548 insipidness1711 writation1757 milk-and-water1792 wish-wash1842 slush1869 hogwash1870 insipidity1875 slosh1894 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [noun] > inferior swilling1545 pigwash1604 hogwash1610 tiffa1635 rag water1699 necessity1748 wash1819 bellywash1840 Hoochinoo1877 hooch1897 pink-eye1900 shypoo1901 King Kong1937 scrap iron1942 Montana gin1986 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke iii. f. 15–18 My doctrine is but verai washe, if it be compared vnto his doctrine [Erasm. Mea doctrina diluta est, si ad illius doctrinam conferatur]. 1819 W. S. Rose Lett. from N. Italy I. 108 A remedy..is thought to have been discovered in coffee; not the vile and vapid wash which is usually made in England,..but [etc.]. 1830 J. Rayson Misc. Poems, Songs, & Ballads 43 Nae mair weast yer money on ony sec wesh. 1895 J. Nicholson Kilwuddie (ed. 4) 166 We kentna the goo' o' the wash we drink noo, That puir, feckless skiddle ca'd tea. 1911 R. Brooke Let. in Memoir (1918) p. lxx To remove it [the sonnet called Lust] would be to overbalance the book still more in the direction of unimportant prettiness. There's plenty of that sort of wash in the other pages for the readers who like it. b. Nonsense, rubbish, ‘twaddle’. Cf. senses 11a figurative and 15a figurative, and hogwash n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1913 A. Lunn Harrovians xvii. 287 The Housemasters call their Sixth together at intervals and gass 'em... You know the kind of wash. 1933 G. Heyer Why shoot Butler? vi. 86 Not strictly the clean potato, is it?.. Guest in the man's house, you know. The Public School Spirit, and Playing for the Side, and all that wash. VII. An oar-blade. 16. The blade of an oar. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > oar > blade of oar bladec1000 oar-bladeOE palma1522 wash1769 bowl1805 peel1875 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Oar That part of the oar..which enters into the water, is called the blade, or wash. VIII. Senses of obscure or doubtful origin. 17. A measure for oysters and whelks. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > quantity of shellfish wash1481 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 370 Item, for ij. wash and di. of oystres at Wevenho, iiij. d. 1574 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 444 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 To Walter Tayler for viij washe of oysters and for charges from Dunesbye, vj s. viij d. 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) A Wash of Oysters is ten Strikes. 1677 Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds (Bundle 101, No. 2) Paid for a wash of oysters presented to a gent. in London vpon the town's account. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 163/2 The trade in whelks is one of which the costermongers have the undisputed monopoly... This shell-fish is bought by the measure (a double peck or gallon), half-measure, or wash. A wash is four measures. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 256/2 Each smack takes about 40 wash of whelks with her for the voyage. 1882 Standard 26 Sept. 2/2 Whelks are sold by the ‘wash’, a wash consisting of 21 quarts and one pint,..worth on an average four shillings. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > parts of eye wash1639 brill1688 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. viii. 170 I have oft times seene the French Marishals take up the wash of the eye with a Spanish needle, threeded with a double brown threed,..but I cannot commend this manner of curing the Haw, for by that meanes he cutteth away the wash of the eye, which indeed is the beauty of the eye. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xvii. 240 Farriers taking up the Wash of the Eye with a Needle and Thread. 19. The underground den of a beaver or a bear. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Castoridae (beaver) > lodge lodge1567 hut1669 wash1809 beavery1877 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > den wash1877 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 128 It [the beaver's house] is always entirely surrounded with water; but, in the banks adjacent, the animal provides holes or washes, of which the entrance is below the surface, and to which it retreats on the first alarm. 1877 E. Coues Fur-bearing Animals ii. 52 They [wolverenes] bring forth in burrows under ground, probably old Bear washes, and have four or five young at a birth. 20. slang. a. Printing. An act of ‘washing’ (see wash v. 20a). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > hammering on desk (of colleague) washing1825 wash1841 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 810. b. Stock Market. A fictitious sale of securities by a broker who has a commission from an intending buyer and also from an intending seller, and who instead of effecting the two transactions separately, in the interest of each client, simply transfers from the one account to the other, the difference going to his own profit. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable poison pill1653 rig1826 cornering1841 wash-sale1848 washing1849 market-rigging1851 corner1853 watering1868 wreck1876 manipulation1888 wash1891 market mongering1901 matched orders1903 grey market1933 bond washing1937 warehousing1971 bed-and-breakfasting1974 dawn raid1980 1891 in Cent. Dict. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. In sense 14, designating various vessels in which the distiller's ‘wash’ is contained or elaborated. wash-back n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > distilling > [noun] > wort > vessel for wash-back1839 wash-charger1839 wash-heater1839 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 403 Before the fermented wort goes into the still, a calculation is made of the quantity of wash drawn from the wash back, and which is first pumped into what is called the wash charger. wash-batch n. ΚΠ 1696–7 Act 8 & 9 Will. III c. 19 §10 That no common Distiller..shall..erect or sett upp any Tun Cask Wash-batch Copper Still or other Vessell for the brewing making or keeping of any Worts Wash [etc.]. wash-charger n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > distilling > [noun] > wort > vessel for wash-back1839 wash-charger1839 wash-heater1839 1839Wash charger [see wash-back n.]. wash-cistern n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > still > [noun] > vessel of alembicc1405 retort1527 bagpipe1558 cornute1605 refrigeratory1605 campane1662 cornue1672 refrigerant1678 culb1683 vesica1683 blind-head1743 ambix1781 refrigerator1798 still-tub1826 wash-cistern1853 wash-warmer1900 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 5 The wash~cistern..should be supported on a shelf near the ceiling of the stove-heated apartment. wash-heater n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > distilling > [noun] > wort > vessel for wash-back1839 wash-charger1839 wash-heater1839 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1182 The water..is carried off by the pipe m, through the vessel n, called the wash-heater. wash-warmer n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > still > [noun] > vessel of alembicc1405 retort1527 bagpipe1558 cornute1605 refrigeratory1605 campane1662 cornue1672 refrigerant1678 culb1683 vesica1683 blind-head1743 ambix1781 refrigerator1798 still-tub1826 wash-cistern1853 wash-warmer1900 1900 S. P. Sadtler Handbk. Industr. Org. Chem. (ed. 3) 220 Interposing between the still and the refrigerating apparatus a ‘wash-warmer’, or vessel filled with the liquid ready for distillation. b. (In sense 11.) wash-buyer n. ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 133/1 There are a number of wash-buyers in the suburbs, who purchase..their stock..at gentlemen's houses, and retail it..to those who feed pigs. C2. wash-bag n. a small waterproof bag for holding toilet articles; a sponge-bag. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > sponge-bag sponge bag1825 toilet roll1877 Dopp kit1937 wash-bag1972 1972 E. Thorpe Night I caught Santa Fé Chief i. 11 I took the wash-bag out of the grip; the face-cloth was slightly damp. 1980 G. Lord Fortress i. 10 She..picked up her wash-bag. She went..to the bathroom. wash-basket n. (a) U.S. see quot. 1881; (b) a basket for clothes sent to the wash. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] > made of strips of wood swill1395 wash-basket1881 chip1922 spelk1949 spale1959 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > bag or basket for washing buck-basket1602 voider1707 clothes-basketa1806 bucking-basket1822 wash-basket1881 laundry bag1895 linen basket1907 washing basket1947 Ali Baba1978 1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 249 Wash-basket, a rude splint basket, circular, shallow, holding about a peck, and with a high bale-handle (Rhode Island). 1903 Daily Chron. 26 June 3/7 The family wash-basket. wash-bill n. U.S. = washing-bill n. at washing n. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > laundry-book or bill washing-billa1817 washing-book1868 wash-bill1873 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > invoice or bill > types of long bill1616 by-bill1732 house bill1754 gas bill1816 advice note1834 pro forma1836 wash-bill1873 telephone bill1889 phone bill1936 1873 B. Harte Episode of Fiddletown 26 Finding his wash-bill made out on the unwritten side of one of these squares, and delivered to him with his weekly clean clothes. wash-book n. a scoring-book or tablet used at bridge. ΚΠ 1908 R. F. Foster Auction Bridge 38 The result of the rubber is usually transferred to a wash-book or flogger. wash coat n. an undercoat, esp. one for improving or preparing the surface rather than giving a colour. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > [noun] > painting > coat of paint > specific coats first coat?1600 overcoating1855 undercoat1873 base coat1907 undercoating1922 guide coat1930 overpaint1944 wash coat1951 overcoat1959 1951 M. Hess Paint Film Defects 385 On wood which has been treated with water-stains the application of wash coats of a 5 to 8 per cent. shellac solution seem [sic] to be popular. 1960 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. X. 593/1 Primers are always pigmented. In clear finishes, the coat which performs this function is described as a sealer, an undercoater, or a wash coat. 1961 J. G. E. Holloway Mod. Painter & Decorator (ed. 5) I. 152 Often the application of a full coat of plastic paint will be preceded by a wash coat..to produce a ground of uniform colour. wash-day n. the day for the washing of clothes in a household = washing-day n. at washing n. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > time for washing clothes washing-weeka1631 washing-daya1632 wash-day1846 1846 Southern & Western Literary Messenger & Rev. 12 598/1 Thursday is wash-day. 1864 M. Gatty Parables 4th Ser. 9 He had watered it..with soap-suds on a wash-day. 1905 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 35 ‘You shouldn't dine with her on wash-days,’ said Selden. wash-fast adj. that can be washed without losing colour or dye. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > fast dyed in grainc1386 grained1455 engrained1598 fast1658 standing1716 ingrain1766 fixed1791 fast-dyed1815 colourfast1851 wash-fast1963 1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. iv. 184 This method of dyeing can be used to produce wash-fast shades. 1977 Private Eye 4 Mar. 21/1 (advt.) T-shirts and sweater shirts printed to your design in wash-fast dyes, permanent whites, gold, silver or velvet flock finishes. wash-fastness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > dye > fast dye > quality stability1791 wash-fastness1962 1962 J. T. Marsh Self-smoothing Fabrics xx. 334 The thermosetting resin..gave moderate recovery but some discolouration and great embrittlement, together with a lack of wash-fastness. wash-land n. a tract of land periodically overflowed by a river. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [noun] > flooded holm?c1050 wash-land1794 callow1823 khadar1828 flood-plain1873 flood-landa1881 berm1891 várzea1911 toich1948 1794 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Cambr. 191 The washlands amount to about three thousand acres. 1878 S. H. Miller & S. B. J. Skertchly Fenland i. 6 Along this course..are wash-lands which receive the waters of the river when it overflows. 1883 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 70/2 In some cases the rivers have even inner and outer banks, with washlands between them. wash-linen n. linen sent to the wash. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > clothes to be or that have been washed buck1532 wash1789 snow1811 washing1843 wash-linen1901 laundry1916 dry cleaning1930 1901 W. Osler Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 4) i. 5 The infection [of typhoid fever] may be spread by means of clothing and wash-linen. wash-plain n. a tract of land formed by alluvial deposits. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > alluvial slobland1837 branch-bottom1880 wash-plain1899 1899 Nature 13 July 259/1 These ‘wash plains’ or stream deltas and fans constitute a very important feature in the Pleistocene deposits of the region. wash primer n. a wash coat for use on metal. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > paint > metal primer wash primer1961 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wash primer. 1963 Times 22 Apr. 6/5 Zinc tetroxychromate is the most commonly used pigment in the so-called ‘wash primers’ for metals, which concurrently etch and coat the metal surface before the application of other paint coats to ensure good adhesion. 1973 Materials & Technol. VI. viii. 552 The next important consumer of polyvinyl acetals is the lacquer and paint industry (for wash-primers). wash-sale n. see quot. 1891 (cf. sense 20); cf. washed adj. 1f. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable poison pill1653 rig1826 cornering1841 wash-sale1848 washing1849 market-rigging1851 corner1853 watering1868 wreck1876 manipulation1888 wash1891 market mongering1901 matched orders1903 grey market1933 bond washing1937 warehousing1971 bed-and-breakfasting1974 dawn raid1980 1848 W. Armstrong Stocks 19 These wash sales are of course void between parties. They are of very frequent occurrence and very mischievous. 1891 Cent. Dict. Wash sales, in the stock-market, feigned sales, made for the sake of advantage gained by the report of a fictitious price. 1908 Times 26 Aug. 5/5 In the words of the Evening Post..since 1901 the two terms ‘wash sales’ and ‘matched orders’ have become a familiar explanation of the erratic movements of prices on the Exchange. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the teeth > lip-glass or tooth-glass wash-tumbler1774 lip-glass1825 tooth-glass1858 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > washing the hands > vessel for washing the hands (and face) > glass for holding washes for the complexion wash-tumbler1774 1774 Pennsylvania Gaz. 14 Dec. 1/1 Glass. Cut candlesticks, decanters, wash tumblers, wine glasses, [etc.]. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > place where washing is done lavendry1377 washing-house14.. bucking-stoke1483 laundry1577 wash-house1577 laundry-house1585 bucking-house1597 wash-yardc1625 lavatory1661 buck-house1738 woman-house1754 wash-kitchen1838 water-shed1859 washery1875 c1625 in W. Robinson Hackney (1842) I. 111 [Inventory of Goods] In the Wash-house..In the Wash-yarde. Item—One great cesterne of leade, [etc.]. Draft additions 1993 Photography. The liquid in which a newly developed photographic plate or print is washed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > others accelerator1843 nitroglucose1852 restrainer1865 medium1867 intensifier1883 stop bath1898 opaque1908 bleacher1911 coupler1938 wash1953 1953 M. P. Wooller Print Control vi. 84 The hypo. converts the silver ferrocyanide into a complex silver compound, which is soluble in water, and disappears in the wash. 1988 Practical Photogr. Sept. 83/1 Take the print from the wash and place it into the bleach. Draft additions 1993 A balanced outcome; a situation or result which is of no net gain or loss. U.S. colloquial (originally Commerce). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > compromise > [noun] > instance of midsc1485 temper?1523 composition1597 temperature1598 temperament1604 medium1719 compromise1797 come-between1877 trade-off1909 wash1976 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 10 Apr. 5/4 If Humphrey were the more Democratic nominee, it would be more or less of a wash, because Humphrey is an old Washington hand too, and he carries many of the same scars as Ford. 1983 Fortune 31 Oct. 7/2 After capital-gains taxes the entire CIT transaction will be accounted for as a wash... ‘A wash is better than a loss.’ 1989 Atlantic Sept. 20/3 There is a remote possibility..that statistically the matter is a wash. Draft additions April 2010 wash cycle n. a washing process carried out in a machine, industrial plant, etc.; spec. a stage in the operation of a washing machine or dishwasher during which items are cleaned using water and detergent; cf. rinse cycle n. at rinse n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1916 Bull. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers July 1610 Extraction on 1.4 per cent. ore using closed wash cycle, 82 per cent. 1947 N.Y. Times 19 June 35/4 (advt.) Standard wash tests show zero shrinkage after 15 wash cycles. 2010 Irish News (Nexis) 8 Mar. 27 The wash cycle proceeds with the regular ‘klonk, klonk’ of the rotor-blades beating the daylights out of your Denby dinner plates. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † washadj. Obsolete. Washy, weak, tender. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [adjective] wokec897 unstronga900 unmightyeOE feeblec1175 strengthlessc1175 unwieldc1220 weaka1300 frailc1384 unwieldyc1386 unthendec1425 dissolutec1450 unsure?a1475 feyc1475 simple1477 unfirm1483 unsinewed?1541 wash1548 weakling1557 ladylike1566 silly1567 water weak1592 washya1631 wankle1686 foible1715 unmuscular1725 nerveless1792 wankly1795 shilpit1813 wankya1825 sinewless1829 weedy-looking1835 queachy1859 insubstantiala1861 paper-backed1888 weak-fleshed1967 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > weak (of immaterial things) thin?c1225 wateryc1230 feeble1393 wash1548 waterish1549 fadea1554 limping1577 dilute1605 lank1607 languid1622 water gruel1630 invalid1635 sinewless1644 exsanguine1647 flaccid1647 diluted1681 wishy-washy1693 tiffany1694 foible1715 rickety1738 faintly1771 unrobust1775 pale1820 peely-wally1832 muscleless1841 weakling1848 weedy?1858 feeblose1882 papery1924 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xii. 49–53 It is no washe doctrine, ne worldely [Erasm. non est diluta, nec humana doctrina], that I haue brought down from heauen. 1607 J. Marston What you Will i. i But how long doth this perfume of sweete Madam last? Faith tis but a wash sent. a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Hhhh3/1 Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper, a rough-pac'd bed will shake 'em all to pieces. a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) iii. 26 Tis a wash knave, he will not keep his flesh well. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. iii. 59 They are naturally slow, dull, heavy, and nesh or wash of their flesh. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). washv. I. To cleanse by means of water. Also with adjective complement, to wash white, clean. 1. a. transitive. To cleanse, remove the dirt from (something) by affusion of or immersion in water.In Old English the verb was almost confined to the specific use 2 below. For the washing of vessels, and for the washing of the human body, the word used was þwéan. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] swillc725 wash900 laveOE bewash1589 elavate1599 to wash up1756 to wash down1877 900 in Thorpe Dipl. Angl. Sax. (1865) 145 Hi sculan waxan sceap. c1000 Ælfric Leviticus i. 9 And waxan þæt innewerde and þa fet [of the burnt offering]. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) v. 2 Ða fisceras eodon, & woxon heora net. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5078 Heo..wascen þa waȝes [c1300 Otho wassen þe wowes]. 13.. St. Alexius 311 (Laud 108) As he wessch here dissches. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. III. 315 Diogenes wisshe [v.rr. wische, wysch] wortes in a tyme. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. VI. 403 Sche wolde take þe schoon of here sustres priveliche by nyȝte and wasche [v.rr. wasse, waysche] hem and smere hem. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 751 It [sc. the conduit water] made a ful purgacioun Of al ordure & fylþes in þe toun, Waschyng þe stretis as þei stod a rowe. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 18 Pyke hem clene, & skrape hem, & Wasshem clene. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 114 Nym ye ris, whess hem clene. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 230 A good huswijf..now sche sethith, now sche rostith, now sche weischith disschis. 1520 in Archaeologia 25 437 For wayshyng of the flocke at Frynge iij s. iiij d. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 24 Water..for washing of glasses. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 317 In Kent..they wash their sheep in the following manner. 1752 E. Moxon Eng. Housewifery (new ed.) 185 Take cockles at a full moon and wash them. 1773 J. Campbell Treat. Mod. Faulconry 199 When you give her casting of flannel or cotton, take care to have them washen as clean as they can be. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 189 The second-floor front was scrubbed, and washed, and flannelled. 1849 C. J. Lever Confessions Con Cregan I. xviii. 284 Carriages, too, were washing, and high-bred horses standing out to be groomed. 1860 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (rev. ed.) x. 127 In the sick room, the doctor should always be asked..at what hour he chooses the floor to be washed. 1905 R. Bagot Passport xxvii. 295 We could talk afterwards—while Ernana is washing the dishes. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain to lose or spill one's whilec1175 to speak to the windc1330 tinec1330 to beat the windc1375 lose?a1513 to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529 to lose (one's) oil1548 to plough the sand (also sands)a1565 to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581 to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581 to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600 to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616 to bark against (or at) the moona1641 dead horse1640 to cast stones against the wind1657 dry-ditcha1670 baffle1860 to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933 a1600 R. Hooker Learned Disc. (1612) 22 But we wash a wall of lome; we labor in vaine. a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) iii. v. 41 We have, As learned Authours utter, washd a Tile. View more context for this quotation 1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 263 I wish I could make him feel as he ought, but one may as well wash a brick. c. Nautical. to wash a ship: see quot. Also absol. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing other specific things > wash other specific things [verb (intransitive)] > wash a ship to wash a ship1644 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 113 To Wash a Ship. That is used at sea, when we cannot come aground, or careene-her: we make her heeled-over with her Ordnance and men, upon the yard-arms to a side, and so wash that side and scrape it (so much as is out of the water, which is commonly some 5, or 6 strakes). 1666 London Gaz. No. 28/3 The Forrester having washed and tallowed here, is gone to her station. 1679 London Gaz. No. 1445/1 They will Wash and Tallow, and then take their course to the Westward. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 235 The Sloop Wash'd and Tallow'd also. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > fishing nets [verb (transitive)] > wash net to wash off1630 1630 Order in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 73 Upon Saturday Sun set, to wash off his Net, hale up and go home. 1630 Order in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 77 That no Trawler do fish..upon the Saturday after Sun-rising, but to wash off, hale up, and go home. e. to wash out: to cleanse the interior of (a vessel). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > wash interior of to wash out1827 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. ii. 56 It is requisite that it [the bottle] be washed out after every experiment, the last two or three rincings being made with distilled water. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 757 A tube of convenient size open at the top or sides so that it can be properly washed-out. f. to wash up: (a) to wash (table utensils) after a meal. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > wash table utensils [verb (transitive)] to wash up1751 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > wash table utensils [verb (intransitive)] to wash up1820 wash1943 to get washed up1950 1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. xiii. 241 When he had done sipping his Tea, he used to wash up the Cups with the most orderly Exactness. 1820 J. Severn Let. 17 Dec. in J. Keats Lett. (1958) II. 363 I am obliged to wash up—cook—& read to Keats all day. 1837 J. Morier Abel Allnutt xx. 116 That Betsy might be allowed to come in and help to ‘wash up’. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xlix. 473 Sitting in state to see the room cleared, the hearth swept, and the dinner-service washed up and polished in the back yard. 1905 R. Bagot Passport xxiii. 233 His supper over, and Ernana having retired into the kitchen to wash up. (b) figurative. To bring to a conclusion; to end or finish (something). U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > bring to an end or conclude [verb (transitive)] yendc1000 abatec1300 finec1300 endc1305 finisha1375 definec1384 terminec1390 achievea1393 out-enda1400 terminate?a1425 conclude1430 close1439 to bring adowna1450 terma1475 adetermine1483 determine1483 to knit up1530 do1549 parclose1558 to shut up1575 expire1578 date1589 to close up1592 period1595 includea1616 apostrophate1622 to wind off1650 periodizea1657 dismiss1698 to wind up1740 to put the lid on1873 to put the tin hat on something1900 to wash up1925 1925 World (N.Y.) 25 Oct. ii. 3/1 ‘That guy might be all right if he washed up [sc. washed, cleaned himself],’ commented Buck... Just then the stage manager called out: ‘What will I do with this act, Mr. Ziegfeld?’ ‘Wash up him and the bird,’ said Flo [Ziegfeld] and that was the last of the Italian and his trained canary... Hype Igoe, the World's sporting writer, heard of the incident..and in commenting..upon Frank Moran, heavy weight pugilist, advised that matchmakers ‘wash him up’. The phrase caught the sporting fancy..and has become a colloquial fixture..as a meaty synonym for finals and farewell. 1929 Sat. Evening Post 2 Nov. 24/3 ‘I had an idea,’ he explained... ‘Just came to me, riding back. I think I know how I can wash it up.’.. He would write it now—tonight! 1940 J. O'Hara Pal Joey (1952) 65 They said act of God and fire etc. wash up a contract automatically. 1972 D. Delman Sudden Death iv. 98 That man washed himself up with me because he couldn't keep his big, fat, fairy's mouth shut. g. to wash down: to wash from top to bottom or from end to end. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] swillc725 wash900 laveOE bewash1589 elavate1599 to wash up1756 to wash down1877 1877 G. Stables Pract. Kennel Guide 129 A portion of carbolic acid should be used with the water you wash down the yard with. 1898 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Oct. 300 The waters of the bay are so foul that..ships which visit Rio..do not wash down their decks..during their stay in port. 1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 14 Gilmour..was washing down the legs of a horse. h. figurative. In the game of mah-jong, to shuffle (the tiles). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > mah-jong > [verb (transitive)] > shuffle tiles wash1926 1926 A. Christie Murder of Roger Ackroyd xvi. 196 Caroline got out the Mah Jong box and poured out the tiles upon the table. ‘Washing the tiles,’ said the colonel. 1929 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 677/1 All the tiles are..put face downward on the table and thoroughly shuffled or ‘washed’. 1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy xiv. 319 Jerry heard a ritual clicking as the habitual mah-jong party washed the pieces before distributing them. i. absol. To wash table utensils as opposed to drying them. Cf. dry v. 1c, wipe v. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > wash table utensils [verb (intransitive)] to wash up1820 wash1943 to get washed up1950 1943 L. I. Wilder These Happy Golden Years xxi. 192 Neither of you need worry about the dishes... I'll wash and Grace will wipe. 1958 J. Cannan And be Villain vii. 150 Evadne..insisted on washing while Laura dried. 1962 M. Duffy That's how it Was xiii. 115 Billy washes, Arthur wipes, you put away. 1978 Listener 13 Apr. 483/1 Let's pack away the tea. I'll wash, you dry. 2. a. To cleanse (soiled clothes, wool, etc.) by rubbing in water, with soap or some equivalent. Also to wash clean, to wash white. to wash through, to wash (a garment) by hand, often individually and hastily. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (transitive)] washc900 scour1467 neta1661 laundry1880 maid1882 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (transitive)] > hastily to wash through1936 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) i. xxvii. 84 He þa ærest bebead, þæt heo heora hrægl woosce & clænsode. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 57 Sume bereð sole cloð to þe watere forto wasshen it clene. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 240 Wule anweb beon anchere wel ibleached wið an water an sol clað wel iweschen. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 236 Ase linene kertel erþan hi by huyte ueleziþe him behoueþ þet he by ybeate and ywesse. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 315 Þi best cote..Hath many moles and spottes, it moste ben ywasshe. c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 84 Take hit vppe in a faire lynnen cloth that is clene wasshen. 1497 Ledger-bk. A. Halyburton (1867) 149 Item ffor iiij men to weysch it [the wool] and dry it,..3 s. 1522 Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 17 That na persoun nor personis woucht ony maner of clais at the toune bouirn..undir the pain of..brekin of the weschal that tha wous with. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Radicula, an herbe, the iuyce whereof is good to wasshe woulle. 1568 Wyf of Auchtirmwchty 94 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 323 He trailit the fowll scheitis doun the gait Thocht to haif wechst [Ramsay wush] thame on ane stane. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Ess. (1897) 814 ‘See,’ exclaimed Voltaire, ‘what a quantity of his dirty linen the King has sent me to wash!’ 1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. ii. 25 How nice my handkerchiefs look, dont they? Hannah washed and ironed them for me. 1936 N. Streatfeild Ballet Shoes ix. 136 I'll just wash your jersey through. 1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xvii. 168 ‘Isn't that one of my spare shirts?’.. ‘Sorry. Yes it is. But I washed it through for you.’ b. to be (a) washing: to be getting washed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > be getting washed [verb (intransitive)] to be (a) washing1600 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood v. 72 Except his Shirt's a washing. 1702 T. Brown Select Epist. Cicero 282 Their Commodes and Smocks were washing below by the Landlady of the house. c. to wash one's dirty linen at home, in public: said figuratively with reference to domestic quarrels or grievances, the discussion of which is best confined to the family circle.Cf. French Il faut laver son linge sale en famille. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > state or declare [verb (intransitive)] > discuss private matter in public to wash one's dirty linen at home, in public1867 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep quiet about [phrase] to keep or hold (a matter) counsel (later in counsela1400 to keep secret1399 to keep (something) dark1532 to draw a veil over1582 not to tell one's shirt1586 to keep one's (own) counsel1604 to put (also keep) in one's pocketa1616 to name no names1692 to make a secret of1738 to keep (‥) snug1778 to clap, put, or keep the thumb on1825 to wash one's dirty linen at home, in public1867 to hold back1956 to sweep (also brush, kick, etc.) (something) under the rug1956 to get it off one's chest1961 to sweep (or push) (something) under the carpet1963 society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > openly [phrase] not to (or at) laina1375 with (an) open facea1425 to (one's) teeth1542 to wash one's dirty linen at home, in public1867 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. xliv. 2 I do not like to trouble you with my private affairs;—there is nothing, I think, so bad as washing one's dirty linen in public. 1891 Law Times 91 21/2 It is ridiculous that grave disputes..should be kept waiting while the dirty linen of high society is..washed in public. 1895 Globe 23 May 1 People who ought to wash their dirty linen at home will not be satisfied with a less public laundry than Piccadilly. d. †to wash up, ? to wash with vigorous rubbing. to wash out, to rinse so as to remove soap or other substance from the web of the stuff. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] swillc725 wash900 laveOE bewash1589 elavate1599 to wash up1756 to wash down1877 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > rinse sinda1350 spoil1480 rinsec1500 slouse1726 sluice1755 sozzle1845 slush1854 to wash out1876 sloush1889 wash1894 slooshy1907 sloosh1912 1756 F. Home Exper. Bleaching 214 Give it a boil or two at most, and then wash it up while the gross body of the lime is in the substance of the cloth. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 688/2 They [dyed calicoes] are treated with a hot solution of soap; they are then washed out, squeezed, and again soaped. e. absol. To wash clothes (as an occupation or as part of one's household duties). Also, to wash the clothes of a household periodically. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (intransitive)] washa1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 304 Item, she can wash and scoure. View more context for this quotation 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii She that Washeth. Lauatrix. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 420 What wilt thou do to the Germans, who wash scarce twice in a year? 1725 View London & Westm. 9 They were extraordinary Oeconomists, brew'd their own Beer, wash'd at home. 1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life I. 242 Mrs. Stevens's things hanging out again! I thought she washed last week. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxii. 348 Betsy Martin, widow... Goes out charing and washing, by the day. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. ix. 176 Lucy Sandey would mangle, wash, and clear-starch. f. transitive. To wash clothes for (a customer or lodger). dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (transitive)] > wash clothes for wash1786 laundress1850 1786 J. Woodforde Diary 31 May (1926) II. 247 I paid her up to this Day and told her I would get another to wash him. 1795 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Essex 82 They cook, wash, lodge, and find them [the workmen] in small beer for 2s. per week. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) She has weshed him ever sin he came. 1895 ‘Rosemary’ Under Chilterns ii. 81 That'd be nigh enough for me to wash 'im an' mend 'im. g. absol. To have one's clothes washed; to pay the laundress's charges. jocular nonce-use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (intransitive)] > have one's clothes washed wash1837 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers liv. 594 It was by very many degrees the best professional job he had ever had, and one on which he boarded, lodged, and washed, for six months afterwards. h. transitive. Of water or other agent: To have the property of cleansing (clothes) easily and well. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [verb (transitive)] > wash easily or well wash1697 1697 T. Tryon Way to Health (ed. 3) vi. 101 It [sc. rain-water] Brews and Washes to greater advantage than others. i. intransitive. Of a fabric, a dye: To bear cleansing with soap and water without damage to colour or texture. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (intransitive)] > be washable wash1765 launder1908 1765 B. Franklin Let. 13 July in Wks. (1887) III. 402 Mrs. Stevenson bids me tell Sally, that the striped gown I sent her will wash. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. iii. 39 It is very pretty, madam..but I do not think it will wash well: I am afraid it will fray. View more context for this quotation 1840 H. Brownrigg in K. Meadows Heads of People I. 93 ‘You told me, sir, the print would wash!’ she exclaimed, shewing to the unmoved shopman the colourless purchase. 1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 971/1 Only eighteen~pence a yard, ma'am, and warranted to wash. j. figurative (colloquial) To bear trial or investigation, stand the test, find acceptance, prove to be genuine, reliable. Chiefly in (it) won't wash. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (intransitive)] > be proved to be provec1300 verifya1387 approve1587 improve1612 bear1710 to turn up1756 to turn out1780 wash1849 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. vii. 178 That willn't wash, Miss. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. ii. 256 He's got pluck somewhere in him. That's the only thing after all that'll wash, ain't it. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xvi. 144 The men,—and the women too,—who are so..soft-natured, so kind,..—it so often turns out that they won't wash. 1881 Ld. Acton Lett. to M. Gladstone (1904) 99 The defect of the argument is that it will neither wear nor wash. 1911 Spectator 21 Oct. 643/1 He was not to be taken in by plausibilities that ‘wouldn't wash’. k. passive or intransitive with out. Of a fabric: To lose colour in the wash. Hence figurative to lose all vigour or freshness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > pass (time) listlessly or lethargically [verb (transitive)] > make listless or lethargic > make dull or deprive of animation obtunda1400 bedulla1617 hebescate1657 deaden1684 wash1846 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) i. 5 The lady..was a long lean figure, wearing such a faded air that she seemed not to have been made in what linen-drapers call ‘fast-colours’ originally, and to have, by little and little, washed out. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice l. 282 That claptrap won't wash any longer,..it is quite washed out. 1886 G. Allen For Maimie's Sake xxii A reaction has set in, and I'm quite washed out and unfit for anything. 3. a. To cleanse (the body or part of it) with water. Also to wash clean, to wash white. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash one's body or part of it [verb (transitive)] washc1160 ablute1703 c1160 Hatton Gosp. Matt. xxvii. 24 Pilatus..weosc [c1000 Ags. Gosp. þwoh] hys hande beforan þam folke. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15122 To wasshenn offte þeȝȝre lic. Wiþþ waterr all wiþþ utenn. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 240 Þu wescheð þine honden in anlepi dei dei twiȝen oðer þriȝen. a1300 Marina 172 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 173 Go we whosshen vr dede broþer. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2289 After ðat grot he weis is wliten. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 423 Oure bodies ne ben in no baþ wahche. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Judith x. 3 She wesh [a1425 L.V. waischide] hir bodi. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 267 Scho warmyt wattir, and hir serwandis fast His body wousche. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ii. 61 They..asked after water for to wasse their handes. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xix. A Let your fete be waszshen. 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 262 Thair come our kitteis weschin clene. 1622 J. Taylor Farewell to Tower-bottles A 8 Many times you haue beene fild with trash, Scarce good enough your dirty skins to wash. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 73. ⁋3 Keep your Temper, wash your Face, and go to Bed. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxviii. 349 To wash and dress this young gentleman. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles I. i. 11 Here's Francis coming down-stairs. He went up to wash his hands. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 610 The patient may be washed with sulphur soap. b. const. of. rare. ΚΠ 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. v. 193 Whan chyldren ben wasshe of fylthe anone they defoyle themself ayen. 1897 O. Wister in Harper's Mag. Mar. 520/2 Both were aware that when shaved and washed of their round-up grime they could look very engaging. c. said of the water as agent. ΚΠ 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. ix. 445 The ryuer Jordan wisshe and clensyd Naaman of Syria of his lepre. 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxviii. sig. Biiv Saue water, whiche dooeth washe thy handes. d. Proverbs. †one hand washeth another (see quots. 1581, 1593). to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white); to wash an ass's head (or ears): to labour in vain (cf. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain to lose or spill one's whilec1175 to speak to the windc1330 tinec1330 to beat the windc1375 lose?a1513 to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529 to lose (one's) oil1548 to plough the sand (also sands)a1565 to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581 to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581 to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600 to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616 to bark against (or at) the moona1641 dead horse1640 to cast stones against the wind1657 dry-ditcha1670 baffle1860 to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 165 As one hand washeth another, and both of them the face, so one brother ought to support another. 1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow (1882) 53 Who washeth the Asses eares, looseth both his Sope and his labour. 1593 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 269 One hand washeth an other: and it apperteineth vnto him, that taketh something, to giue some~thing. 1604 J. Marston Malcontent iv. iii. sig. F3 I washt an Ethiop, who for recompence Sullyde my name. a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 375 We mein nocht to tyne tyme in wassing of sic Moores. 1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox sig. Ii4v I have now washt the Black-moore these five yeares, having yet received neither Sallery, wages or reward. marg. Laboured in vaine. 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 155 He that washeth an asses head loseth both his lye and his labour. a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) ii. ii. 70 For, beinge censurd, Or to extenuate or excuse my guilt Weare but to wash an Ethiop. a1791 J. Wesley Serm. (1825) II. lxviii. 158 In the most elegant language, she labours to wash the Æthiop white. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 65 It is loss of time and soap to wash an ass's head. e. Phrase, to wash one's hands of: to disown responsibility for; to refuse to have any further connection with.So in French and other modern languages; originally an allusion to Pilate's washing his hands (Matthew xxvii. 24). ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > be exempt from (a liability or obligation) [verb (transitive)] > disown responsibility for to wash one's hands of?1554 ?1554 Lady J. Grey Epist. sig. Bvij I wil wash my hands giltles thereof. 1570 G. Buchanan Chamæleon in Vernac. Writings (1892) 53 Pilat wesching his handis of ye deid of Chryst. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 62 I entend to spend my breath no longer upon them, but to wash my hands quite of the busines. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour ii. i. 11 Mony is but Dirt Sir Joseph—Mere Dirt. Sir Jo. But I profess, 'tis a Dirt I have wash'd my Hands of at present. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 253 He said, he should wash his hands before all the world from the least imputation of slackness. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. iii. 165 ‘Then I wash my Hands of you,’ cries the Doctor. View more context for this quotation 1766 Walpole Let. Lady Coke 3 Mar. Politics, of which I washed my hands for ever when I came away. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House vi. 53 He had entirely washed his hands of the difficulty, and it had become ours. 1887 ‘E. Lyall’ Knight-errant I. iv. 65 You are incorrigible. I wash my hands of you. f. The expression ‘I will wash my hands in innocency’ (Psalm xxvi. 6) is echoed in the following passage, where the meaning is ‘to lead a life of heedless ease’. ΚΠ 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 324 Who of all men living wash their hands most in carelesnesse, being never disturbed with worldly cares or incumbrances. g. to wash one's hands: to rub the hands alternately one over the other, in imitation of the action of washing them. (Cf. Shakespeare Macbeth v. i. 33). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (intransitive)] > touch or handle idly or restlessly finger1546 to wash one's hands1570 fibulate1640 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1664/1 Rogers..was burned into ashes, washing hys handes in ye flame as he was in burning. 1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg i, in New Monthly Mag. 60 89 He..Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap, In imperceptible water. h. Of a cat, etc.: To cleanse (itself, its face) by licking and rubbing with its paw. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash one's body or part of it [verb (transitive)] > of an animal wash1661 1661 M. Stevenson Twelve Moneths 27 The Hare in a Furrow sits washing her face. 1792 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 389 Auld baudrans by the ingle sits, An' wi' her loof her face a washin'. 1858 H. W. Dulcken Picture Fables 89 Why do you wash yourself, Pussy? i. reflexive. To cleanse one's body, or (often) merely one's face and hands, with water. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash oneself [verb (reflexive)] washc1175 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 73 Wascheð ou and wonieð clene. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 47 As ha wesch hire. c1250 Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 29, vi. Ydres of stone þet ware i-clepede baþieres wer þo gius hem wesse for clenesse. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 202 Elyseu þe profete het to naaman þet wes mezel þet he him wesse ine þe flom Jordan zeueziþe. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 254 Into his bath he wente anon And wyssh him clene as eny bon. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 468 That no man schulde take mete, but that he anoon bifore waischid him. 1596 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 86 Eftir thei hed anes waschin tham selffis and dryit agane. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 142 They wash themselues in a Lauotoio. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxxv. 2) 278 We wash us every day; but, when to dine with great ones, we wash us with balls, and put on our best. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 94. ¶8 He threw off his Cloaths with a Design to wash himself. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 142 Until I wash me again Clean in the running fountain. j. intransitive for reflexive (= to wash oneself, one's hands, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash oneself [verb (intransitive)] washc1175 ablute1791 douche1843 souse1895 to wash up1934 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 159 Þos fure kunnes teres boð þe fuwer wateres þa þe beoð ihaten us on to weschen. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 541 Þe king no seyd no more, Bot wesche and ȝede to mete. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2997 Whan þei samen hade souped & seþþe whasche after. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 28 Þei wesshen [v.r. wasscheden] and wypeden and wenten to þe dyner. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. x. 49 Anon as they had wasshen & rysen. ?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 116 I woll not presume, to wasshe wt you, And therfore I pray you hold me excused, than was my lord Cardynall constrayned to washe alone, And my lord of Norffolk all alon also. 1605 P. Erondelle French Garden L 4 b Come, wash with my Lady and me, We may wash well foure in a Basen. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 140 Come Kate and wash, & welcome heartily. View more context for this quotation 1694 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 18) i. iii. 410 No Earl is to wash with a Duke without the Dukes Permission. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 384 These serv'd her Coffée kneeling, brought water when she wash'd, etc. 1770 G. White Let. 8 Oct. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 133 As far as I can observe, many birds that dust themselves never wash. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. i. 5 And now wash speedily..and follow me. 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 49 Here the birds can wash. k. To cleanse, rinse, drench (the mouth, etc.) with a douche or medicinal application. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > rinse with douche, antiseptic, etc. wash1538 antiseptize1878 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash one's body or part of it [verb (transitive)] > douche wash1538 douche1772 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Gargarisso, to gargaryshe or washe the mouthe and throte of a man. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. C.vi Then let ye pacyent fastyng hold this bage in his mouth & chaw it betwixt hys teeth, & after washe his mouth wyth warme wyne and Hony. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 77 The Colonel..began to wash out his mouth. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 583 Antral and attic cavities washed out with strong antiseptic solution. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 300 It is a good thing to keep washing out the vagina by antiseptic douches. l. Said with reference to baptism.⁋Used by Cheke to translate βαπτίζειν to baptize. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > baptize [verb (transitive)] fulloweOE ChristeOE dipc975 fulghtOE fulghtenlOE baptize1297 washa1300 christen1340 underfo1362 superfuse1657 a1300 Cursor Mundi 23686 Waters þat wete þan cristes flexs, and in batism his santes wexs. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 9508 Adams synne was so grefe, Þat þyr was to God none so lefe, Þyt he ne shulde to helle gone But he were wasshe yn þe fonte stone. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 72 Joon hadde office of God to se Crist, and waishe him. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 188 b/2 He baptysed our lord and wysshe hym where he had neuer fylthe. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 123 All that ar wasshed in the floude of baptym. a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) xx. 22 Can ie..be wasched with yt wasching yt I schal be wasched withal. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii To Wash. Belaue, Baptize. 1653 R. Carpenter (title) The Anabaptist washt and washt, and shrunk in the washing. m. figurative. To cleanse from the stain of sin. Const. from, †of. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > save, redeem [verb (transitive)] aleseOE abyeOE buyc1175 washc1175 winc1220 salvea1225 savec1225 forbuyc1315 ransomc1350 signc1350 again-buya1382 forechoosea1400 gain-buy1435 redeemc1438 pre-elect1561 sa'1604 electa1617 unsina1631 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 157 Swiche teres scedde M. Magdalene þa heo wosch ure drihtenes fet and heo werð hire solf waschen of hire fule sunnen. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 112 Þe herte þet is..yclensed and ywesse be zoþe ssrifte. a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 201 Of blod & water þe stremes be, vs to whosshe from oure fon þre. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. i. 5 The which..waschide [v.r. wesh] us fro oure synnes in his blood. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1558) viii. xiii. 8 As man most sinful I come vnto the well..For to be washen of mine iniquity. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 23 Christ woushe us with his blood. c1650 H. Binning Serm. in Wks. (1735) 566 We are washen from the Guilt of our Sins. 1709 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs (ed. 2) i. 83 But we are wash'd in Jesus Blood, We're pardon'd thro' his Name. 1874 Sankey's Sacred Songs (1878) 45 Washed in the blood of the Lamb. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > justify [verb (transitive)] > exculpate cleansea1000 skere?c1225 unwreea1250 spurge1303 sunyiea1325 disblamec1374 quita1400 whitena1400 emplasterc1405 declare1460 clear1481 absolve1496 purgea1530 free1560 clenge1592 disculp1602 uncharge1604 exonerate1655 exculpate1656 wash1659 excriminate1661 to wipe the mouth of1687 disculpate1693 whitewash1703 rehabilitate1847 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 405 Major-general Kelsey laboured to wash him. o. to wash up: = sense 3j. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash oneself [verb (intransitive)] washc1175 ablute1791 douche1843 souse1895 to wash up1934 1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1935 N. Marsh & H. Jellett Nursing-home Murder iii. 42 Thoms came into the [operating] theatre. ‘We ought to get washed up, sir,’ he said. 1947 J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus 214 A neatness of a mechanic who has just washed up. 1967 L. Block Deadly Honeymoon ii. 26 Wash up and change your clothes. 1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) i. xi. 145 She was glad when he came out of the bathroom and she could go in and wash up. p. to wash one's hands: euphemistic expression for ‘to go to the lavatory’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [verb (intransitive)] to do one's business1596 to pluck a rose1613 to pay a call1648 to go backward1748 go1804 to do (one's) duty1935 to wash one's hands1938 to spend a penny1945 perform1963 1938 I. Goldberg Wonder of Words vi. 108 We are invited to wash our hands, or, if we wear dresses, to powder our noses. 1953 R. Warner Escapade 119 She pointed to a large oak tree... ‘Stupid woman,’ said Lady Average. ‘If she wants to wash her hands, why doesn't she go to the house?’ 1966 G. Greene Comedians i. iii. 84 He was out ‘washing his hands’, as he put it in polite English. 1974 J. Gardner Return of Moriarty 291 I wonder if Rosie could, perhaps, take Miss Malloney to, er, to wash her hands. 4. a. To flush or drench (a substance) with water or other liquid, in order to remove impurities or to dissolve out some component. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action of flushing or swilling > flush or swill [verb (transitive)] > in order to remove or dissolve out a component washa1650 a1650 E. Norgate Miniatura (Tanner 326) (1919) 17 Then take the remayning grounds and wash them as before. 1651 J. French Art Distillation iii. 71 This Oil must be washed in good store of water. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 407 By washing the residuum, a portion of it dissolves in the water. 1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 303 This crust, washed with anhydrous alcohol, breaks up into small crystals. 1853 S. Hughes Gas-works 42 The process of washing the gas is adopted for the purpose of separating ammonia, and consists of passing the gas through a simple sheet of water 6 or 8 inches in depth. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 56 By washing the distilled liquid with water, the acetone may, therefore, be removed. 1874 F. Clowes Elem. Treat. Pract. Chem. 44 A precipitate which has been filtered from the liquid in which it is suspended has often to be washed until perfectly free from the liquid adhering to it. b. Of running water, rain, etc.: To pass over (a surface) so as to carry off adherent matter; to waste, abrade, or erode in its flow. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > erode [verb (transitive)] > erosion by water undermine1398 wash?1523 gall1577 nip1897 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > rinse sinda1350 spoil1480 rinsec1500 slouse1726 sluice1755 sozzle1845 slush1854 to wash out1876 sloush1889 wash1894 slooshy1907 sloosh1912 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xv All ye rayne yt cometh shall wasshe the lande & dryue away the dong & the good molde. 1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 125 In cases where the stream is not rapid, and where there is little risk of the banks being washed or hurt during the summer months. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 399 Taking the water off without washing the land. 1817 Ld. Byron Manfred i. ii. 124 A pathway, which the torrent Hath wash'd since winter. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. viii. 263 The glacier..is flanked by mountains which are washed by rain. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 13 The moon..of early April, clean washen by the rains. 1897 J. L. Allen Choir Invisible v. 65 This stream flows unseen beneath the streets of the city now with scarce current enough to wash out its grimy channel. II. To subject to the action of water or other liquid. 5. a. To bathe, lave (the body, limbs, wounds, etc.) with water or other liquid.Where the reference is to wounds, there is sometimes the additional notion of cleansing from blood, pus, etc.: cf. sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > immerse or dip [verb (transitive)] > the body, face, etc. washc1175 steep1579 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 He weis his wunde mid wine. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. VIII. 235 Þan he wesche [v.rr. weesche, wuesch] þe woundes of þe ymage of the crucifixe. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 199 Þanne waische þe lyme wiþ a decoccioun of malowis & violet & rotis of bismalue in watir. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 109 Wyse maistres and surgyens,..bonde them and weeshe hem [sc. the wounds]. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 787 The wery ost..Wysche woundis with wyn off thaim that was wnsound. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 354 After this my rubbing and being washt with Salt and Vineger. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §998 The Wound must be at first Washed cleane, with White Wine. 1686–7 in Spalding Club Misc. V. 237 He saw Alex. Chalmer, his hand blooding, after it was washen, being hurt. 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 37 A solution of the muriat of mercury in alcohol, to wash the affected parts with twice a day. b. To bathe (the eyes). Also, to wash clean, clear. †Also transferred (jocularly), to clear or sharpen the sight of (the eyes) with strong drink (cf. next). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments of specific parts > treat specific parts [verb (transitive)] > remove dimness from eyes > bathe the eyes washc1200 c1200 Vices & Virtues 125 Wassce and wipe wol clane ða eiȝene, for ðan soð is ðat hie ðe siggen. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13571 Ga wasse þin eien þar. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 2826 Þis bysone mon to þat water he ladde And wosshe þere-wt his ynon two. 16.. Chalkhill in Walton Angler xvi. 210 We..Drink a cup to wash our eyes, Leave the sluggard sleeping. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. xiv. 365 His eyes washed with only a single cup of canary. 1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 259 Thou shalt have no cause to complain that thine eyes..have been damaged by a Scottish mist, while we can find an English piece of money to pay for the good liquor which should wash them clear. c. To moisten (the throat) with wine. †Hence to wash one's brain, head, etc., as jocular expressions for wine-drinking. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > slake thirst > moisten with liquor or wine wash1390 moist1530 liquefy1826 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > drink wine to wash one's brain, head1589 port1825 wine1829 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 176 For Bachus was a glotoun eke, Him for the throte thei beseke, That he it wolde waisshen ofte With swote drinkes and with softe. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Hijv My teth be al to furrid with flakes of skurfe (sticking vpon them syns I washed them with any merye go downe). 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Diiii He that washeth his braines with diuers kinds of wines, is the next doore to a drunken man. 1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde (1592) F 3 Washing their heades well with wine. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Piii I'le wash my temples with some on't presently, and drinke some halfe a score draughts. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 94. a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. iv. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Fff2v/1 Beleeve me fellow here will be lusty drinking. Many a washt pate in wine I warrant thee. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > beautify the skin or complexion [verb (intransitive)] > cleanse or moisturize wash1676 moisturize1945 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode ii. i. 22 Young Ladies, Who notoriously wash, and paint, though they Have naturally good Complexions. 1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer ii. i I may Wash, and Patch, and please my self. 6. a. To plunge, bathe (a person) in a river or lake. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > immerse or dip [verb (transitive)] bebatheOE dipc1000 plungec1380 wash1398 bathec1400 embathe1593 taint1594 immerse1685 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xii. 446 In Ethiopia is a lake and yf a body be wassh therin he shinyth as though he were anoynted wyth oyle. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 129 Having washed him in a lake..they cloath him in a white gown. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash oneself [verb (reflexive)] > bathe washa1382 bathec1400 bain1577 bath1876 a1382 [see sense 6c]. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 414 b/1 The emperour frederyk vysyted the holy londe and wysshe hym in a ryuer. 1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xxx There we wesshe vs & bayned vs all nakyd in the water of Iordan. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 96 He went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and being taken with the crampe, was droun'd. View more context for this quotation 1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 195 One Mr. Reynalds..was drown'd by Ferry Hinksey, he being washing himself, but not able to swim. 1775 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 38 My brother is washing himself at Brighthelmstone. c. intransitive for reflexive. To bathe. Obsolete except of animals. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > immerse or dip [verb (intransitive)] bathec1200 washa1382 dipa1387 bask1393 swelter1595 laver1607 dap1886 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash oneself [verb (intransitive)] > bathe bathec1000 washa1382 bain1483 lave1701 tub1867 bogy1893 tosh1905 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 4 Kings v. 14 He wente doun, and wasche [a1425 L.V. waischide hym] in Jordane seuen sithis. 1621 J. Taylor Motto E 2 Old Chaucer, Sidney, Spencer, Daniel, Nash, I dipt my finger where they vs'd to wash. 1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 12 The ‘Wire Pond’, where the horses came to wash. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > immerse or dip [verb (transitive)] > in water washc1374 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1886) iv. met. vi. 111 Ne the same sterre vrsa nis neuer mo wasshen in the depe westrene see [L. nunquam occiduo lota profundo]. c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 25 If that this boon be wasshe in any welle. e. to wash one's spears (sc. in blood): a phrase attributed to South African chiefs as expressing their motive for going to war. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war to take the plainc1380 to go to war or warsc1450 to take the field1482 to go (etc.) on warfare1483 to pass (forth) in warfare1483 field1535 to go out1548 to go to the war(s)1600 to be (also go) on the warpath1841 to wash one's spears1892 1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily v With every moon a fresh impi started to wash its spears, and came back few and thin. 1903 J. Bryce Stud. in Contemp. Biogr. 221 In one thing the young men [Sir Stafford Northcote's followers], who, like Zulu warriors, wished to wash their spears, were right and he was wrong. 7. a. To wet or moisten thoroughly; to inundate or saturate with water (esp. rain) or other liquid; to sprinkle or pour water upon. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)] drenchc1000 washc1275 drowna1300 drunkena1300 drunka1382 bewetc1400 bedrenchc1450 bucka1513 sowp1513 drooka1522 sousea1542 soaken1577 overdrown1579 soss1587 embay1590 steep1590 overdrencha1592 embathe1593 indrench1593 imbue1594 douse1606 besob1609 bucket1621 sob1625 dash1670 sop1682 saturate1696 float1729 water1754 sodden1812 douche1864 poach1881 tosh1883 sod1895 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8579 Heo wasceð [c1300 Otho wasseþ] þene stan & þer-mide baðieð heore ban. a1300 Cursor Mundi 1997 Now es..þe erth waiker þan it was þan, Thoru þe watur þat it sua wex, þer-for behoues now man ete flesse. c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 766 Reyn shal thee wasshe, and sonne shal thee drye. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 138 Til that the water of the hevene Have waisshen him be times sevene. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 18570 Pirrus.. hewe to gobetis al hir flesch, And with hir blod the tombe wesch. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxxiv. B Their londe shalbe washed [1611 soaked] with bloude. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Roresco, to be washed with dewe. 1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 13 A powryng shower that..well the kyng did washe. 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E4v He that no sooner will prouide a Cloake, Then when he sees it doth begin to raigne, May peraduenture for his negilgence, Be throughly washed when he suspects it not. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 104 Therefore the Moone (the gouernesse of floods)..washes all the aire. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 173 She lookes as cleere As morning Roses newly washt with dew. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 35 Ever and anon our Sails were wash'd by the Waves. 1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. xxviii Flora..New washen with a showir of May. 1783 W. Cowper Rose 1 The rose had been wash'd, just wash'd in a shower. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 143 The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew. b. To wet copiously (with tears).Chiefly in religious use, after Psalm vi. 6 Vulgate, lavabo lectum meum, and with reference to Luke vii. 38. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)] > with tears washc1200 bemoat1605 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 65 Swo ich wile biwepe mine synnes þat mi bed bie iwasshen mid mine teares. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 151 He wasseð his neb mid teares. c1300 Judas 125 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 110 His fet heo wosch wiþ hire teres. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 171 He ssel grat zorȝe habbe..and ofte mid his teares his bed wesse. c1400 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ xlvii And þer wyth of þe habundaunce of teres sche woschsse muche bettere hys heuede. 1450 W. Lomnor in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 35 I..haue soo wesshe this litel bille with sorwfulle terys that [etc.]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 232 He, a marble to her teares, is washed with them, but relents not. View more context for this quotation c. With predicative complement: To form in (holes) by the action of dropping or running water. Similarly, to form a hole or depression in (a surface) by erosion. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > erode [verb (transitive)] > cut channels or holes gull1577 rout1726 wash1766 scour1773 gully1775 erode1830 gorge1849 ravine1858 ream1859 channel1862 canyon1878 to plough out1886 cañon1889 incise1893 runnel1920 1766 Compl. Farmer at Walk The dripping of the water from their branches in hard rains, is apt to wash the gravel in holes, and render the walks very unsightly. 1911 Concise Oxford Dict. (at cited word) Water had washed a channel. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > mutilate coin [verb (transitive)] roundc1400 wash1421 royna1475 clipa1513 rounge1540 diminish1569 scale1576 launder1612 sweat1785 shorten1857 1421–2 T. Hoccleve Min. Poems xxi. 106 How may it [gold coin] holde his peise when it is waishe so that it lackethe somewhat in thiknese? 1543 tr. Act 3 Hen. V c. 6 They that so do clyp, wasshe, and fyle the money of the lande, shalbe iudged traytours to the kynge and to the realme. a1547 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) App. p. lxxxviii Of them that countrefetes, clypis, washes, or fylis the Kinge's coyne. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxix. 245 To wash or clip that coyne which hath on it the marke of God. 1643 in W. H. Black Docquets Lett. Patent at Oxf. (1837) 45 Pardon..for counterfeiting forging clipping washing or falsefying Money of Gold or silver. 9. a. To cover or smear (a surface) with a liquid substance lightly applied. Also with over. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > with liquid suffuse1590 wash1755 flow1864 1755 Art of Drawing in Perspective 91 When these are dry, wash all over with the white Varnish before the Fire. 1854 M. L. Charlesworth Ministering Children v. 60 [She] washed over the tops of the loaves with a feather dipped in beer. b. To cover (a wall, etc.) with pigment mixed with water or watery liquid; to whitewash or colour-wash. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > decorate [verb (transitive)] > paint > paint with whitewash white-limec1300 whiten?a1425 whitewash1591 wash1604 1604 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 157 A plasterer,..v days plasteringe and wasshinge in the chambers on the soth syed, ijs jd. 1606 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 172 A plasterer, v days wasshinge the halle and dyninge chamber, ijs vjd. 1722 London Gaz. No. 6103/3 The Walls of the Houses were washed with Water in which Lime had been slaked. 1830 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 27 Mar. 392 The windmills..are all painted or washed white. c. To cover with a film of metal deposited from a solution. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > coat or cover with metal couch14.. platec1425 bush1566 gild1611 sheathe1615 water1637 tincture1670 laminate1697 wash1792 replate1796 rebush1864 electro1891 metallize1911 1792 Gentleman's Mag. 62 i. 19/1 A chain and medal..is silver washed over with gold. 1853 H. N. Humphreys Coin Collector's Man. II. xxvi. 381 The ten-centime piece of Napoleon..being of copper washed with silver. 1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 99 §1 Any of the current Coin which shall have been gilt, silvered, washed, coloured, or cased over..so as to resemble..any of the Queen's current Coin of a higher Denomination. 10. a. Water-colour Painting. To cover with a broad layer of colour by a continuous movement of the brush; to depict (a coloured surface) by this means; to lay (colour) in washes. to wash in: to depict (a portion of a subject) with a wash of colour. Also with over. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > lay on a colour > wash or wash in wash1622 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xii. 110 Beginne first to wash ouer some plaine printes. a1650 E. Norgate Miniatura (Tanner 326) (1919) 30 In your dead colourings, you must wash over and colour your ground and complexion, with this red. a1650 E. Norgate Miniatura (Tanner 326) (1919) 32 Washing the colour with a bold hand. a1650 E. Norgate Miniatura (Tanner 326) (1919) 50 When you have..sleigtly washt in your skie. 1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour xv. 53 Arable for corn you may wash with pale straw-colour made of yellow-ocre and white-lead. 1675 A. Browne Ars Pictoria (ed. 2) App. 13 That manner I do approve of better, for Washing or Drawing any Design with Indian Ink, and indeed ought not be called Limning but Washing. 1755 Art of Drawing in Perspective 9 Sometimes the Design is washed, that is, the Shadows are done with a Pencil in Indian Ink, or some other Liquor. 1807 J. Landseer Lect. Engraving iii. 132 A drawing washed with bistre or Indian ink. 1843 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) I. 5 Gaspar..washes his sky half blue and half yellow. 1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) v. 125 He [Turner] was glad to hire himself out at half-a-crown a night to wash in skies in Indian ink upon other people's drawings. 1860 J. D. Hooker Bot. Antarctic Voy.: Flora Tasmania II. 372 The scape should be washed over with a pale brown, leaving hardly a trace of green. 1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 406 The bushes..may be washed in with Indian yellow. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 396 Copley Fielding taught me to wash colour smoothly in successive tints. b. transferred in passive. Said in Natural History of surfaces that appear to have a superficial layer of colour spread over them. ΚΠ 1844 E. Blyth in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 13 i. 466 The legs and feet..are pale; the hands are washed with blackish. 1888 P. L. Sclater & W. H. Hudson Argentine Ornithol. I. 25 Tail-feathers black, washed with blue. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 25 The intermediate form..differs from the typical bird in having the head and throat washed with purple. 11. a. Mining. To agitate in water, or to pass a stream of water through (metalliferous earth) in order to separate the metallic particles. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > wash or stream wash1543 strip1674 stream1778 van1839 1543 in J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1863) I. 403 For washinge the leade ure at Grenehow morr. 1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 177v They washe all the earthe... And if herein they fynde any golde, they folowe it. c1619 S. Atkinson Discov. Gold Mynes Scotl. (1825) 1 The buddle where the same earth must be reudled or washed. 1853 C. R. Read Austral. Gold Fields 34 In many cases men used to pay other £20 a-week to be allowed to wash their tailings. 1863 B. A. Heywood Vacation Tour Antipodes 48 The Chinese..have been known to wash over again the deserted washings of the Europeans, and to find gold in paying quantities. b. absol. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (intransitive)] > wash or stream wash1604 1604 G. Bowes in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Early Rec. Mining Scotl. (1878) 107 I bestowed my workemen to washe for golde in Whites meadowe. 18.. C. A. Goodrich Child's Hist. U.S. (1882) 122 Men..were found gathered there..washing for gold. 1850 N. Kingsley Diary 156 They washed this forenoon and got over two ounces amalgam. c. to wash up: to retrieve (gold) from the riffles, sluices, etc., in which it has collected during washing. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > wash or stream > for gold rock1825 pan1832 cradle1852 puddle1852 sluice1859 to wash up1869 yandy1937 to rock out1966 1869 J. Anderson Sawney's Lett. (ed. 2) 27 Now say, what have you ‘wash'd up’? Small wages. 1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xi. 142 After some months' hard work, we would wash up, and my mate would go off to sell the gold. 1900 B. Harte From Sand Hill to Pine 103 To dig for three or four hours in the morning, smoke their pipes..for an hour at noon, take up their labors again until sunset, when they ‘washed up’ and gathered sufficient gold to pay for their daily wants, was..the realization of a charming socialist ideal. III. Of flowing water: To flow past or over land. 12. a. Of a sea or river: To flow over or past (the sand, shore, coast); to beat upon (walls, cliffs, etc.); to touch, adjoin (a town, country, etc.). Also of a river: To pass through, ‘water’ (a country). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > [verb (transitive)] > surround or touch (of water) washc1275 watera1450 bathe1591 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > cause to flow [verb (transitive)] > against land washc1275 lave1623 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [verb (transitive)] > pass through (a country) wash1591 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 63 I þere Tyure he eode alond þer þa sea wasceð þat sond. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Subluere, to vnder~washe, as water, whyche runneth lowe vnder a banke or hylle, and washeth the foote thereof. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xii. 47 The two sides are washed by the sea. 1591 E. Spenser tr. J. du Bellay Visions in Complaints 158 The golden grayle That bright Pactolus washeth with his streames. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 436 In Times to come, My Waves shall wash the Walls of mighty Rome. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 329 They seldom stretch into Rivers at length, but stagnate in the Low Grounds, which they wash. 1700 H. Chauncy Hist. Antiq. Herts. 3 The Bulborne..washing the North East side of Barkhamsted. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. viii. 69 The crown, Which gave me sovereignty over the land By Danube wash'd. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. xlix. 168 The waves washed the foot of the cliffs. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. vi. 109 A small village, washed by the brook. 1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 45 The British Isles, washed by warm water on their western shores, are peculiarly subject to fogs. b. intransitive. Of waves: To sweep over a surface; to break or surge against (the shore, etc.); to break in. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > move restlessly about [verb (intransitive)] > sweep over or strike against a surface wash1774 lasha1851 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 284 The tides,..constantly washing over them, have always left some part of their substance behind. 1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus xxxi Nothing was..heard but the rippling of the waters of the Seine, then at high tide, washing against the very foundations of the tower. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule viii. 126 The tiny waves that washed in on the white shore. 1885 J. A. Froude Oceana xvi. 243 The lightest ripple washed over the gunwale. c. Used by onomatopœia to suggest the sound of moving water, or of objects moving in water. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > sound of water in motion wash1842 swabble1848 1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 7 I heard the ripple washing in the reeds. 18.. J. Ingelow Days without Alloy iii. (Funk) Then I hear the water washing, never golden waves were brighter. 1891 Cent. Dict. Wash, to make a swish, swash, or swirl of the water; as, the shad are washing. IV. To remove, or carry away, by the action of water or other liquid. 13. a. transitive. To remove (dirt, a stain, colouring, etc.) by the application of water or other liquid. Chiefly with adverb, as away, out, off. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > remove (dirt or stain) by washing clearc1340 washc1450 c1450 Mirk's Festial 90 Then was þys woman agrysed of þe blod, and wold haue weschyn hit away. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 661 Yet, or he cam in company, he wissh a-wey the blood. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. (last line) All blude and slauchtyr away was weschyn clene. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 32 Bay berries..weish out frekles. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iv. 66 After he had beheld the stroke, and washte away the bloud. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. ii. 58 Will all great Neptunes Ocean wash this blood Cleane from my Hand? View more context for this quotation 1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxxv. 437 Would you not have us pull off the Mask or wash off the paint, that we may shew things in their proper colours? 1681 P. Bellon tr. F. de Monginot New Myst. Physick Introd. 45 The Volatil Salt..is to be washed off with the said Water. 1755 Art of Drawing in Perspective 91 Then wash off the Tripoli with a soft Sponge and Water. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xxiv. 620 Agitate it [the gas] with water to wash out the sulphurous acid. 1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus xxxiv Though the blood of his nephew was scarce washed from his hands. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 868 Washing discharge away with sublimate solution. b. figurative.Very common in reference to sin, etc. regarded as a stain or defilement. In early use often without adverb. ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 240 Vch god word vch god werch wescheð smele sunnen. a1240 Ureisun in Old Eng. Hom. I. 189 As wis ase drope of þi deorwurþe blod mahte waschen a-wai alle folkes fulþe. a1300 Cursor Mundi 1594 God..thoght a neu wengaunce to sent,..And waass þat wrang, þat was sa rijf. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 9544 Whan Ihesu was baptysed þer-ynne [sc. in Jordan] For to wasshe awey þat synne. 14.. Pol., Rel. & L. Poems 142 That..thy .v. woundis..May wach in vs all surfetis reproueable. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme li. 5 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 49 O clense [MSS B, K, χ; MS A: clense], o wash, my fowle iniquitie. 1664 in G. Miege Relation of Three Embassies (1669) 169 His subjects..have with their ancient loyalty washed out the staines of the late Rebellion. 1709 M. Prior Henry & Emma 313 Nor Tears, that wash out Sin, can wash out Shame. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxi. 238 The ignominious lashes, which they had formerly received, were washed away in the blood of the guilty, or obnoxious, families. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 130 This merit was thought sufficient to wash out even the stain of his Saxon extraction. 1880 Ld. Acton Lett. to M. Gladstone (1904) 38 The Republican party..had a good deal of dirty work to wash off. c. transferred and figurative. To blot out, obliterate, cancel. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] dilghec897 scrape1303 washc1380 fade1398 razea1425 out-razec1425 racec1450 enrasea1492 stramp1535 wipe1535 facec1540 cancel1559 outblot1573 to wash out1580 to blur out1581 obliterate1607 efface1611 dislimna1616 excerebrate1621 demark1655 rufflea1680 erase1695 scrub1828 overscore1834 elide1846 trash1859 to wipe (off) the slate1921 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 289 Ȝif chartris of men ben contrarie to goddis lawe, þes chartres schulde be wayschen and goddis lawe schulde stonde. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 703 The brotherly loue betwene them, washed away and diminished all suspicion. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft v. ii. 93 Bodin washeth away all our arguments with one word. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 236 Now of these three causes before specified, the first doth not wash away envie. d. intransitive with out. Of colouring matter: To disappear from a fabric when washed. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [verb (intransitive)] > wash out wash1755 1755 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Rec. App. ii. 128 A certain Liquid Composition..which..will neither Wash Out, Fade, or Tarnish. 1972 J. Wilson Hide & Seek vii. 122 I am making a purse..but I pricked my finger and got a bit of blood on it, but..it will wash out. e. to wash out (transitive): (a) to obliterate, cancel, remove. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] dilghec897 scrape1303 washc1380 fade1398 razea1425 out-razec1425 racec1450 enrasea1492 stramp1535 wipe1535 facec1540 cancel1559 outblot1573 to wash out1580 to blur out1581 obliterate1607 efface1611 dislimna1616 excerebrate1621 demark1655 rufflea1680 erase1695 scrub1828 overscore1834 elide1846 trash1859 to wipe (off) the slate1921 1580 H. F. tr. S. Pelegromius Synonymorum Sylua 70/2 To Crosse or Cancell out, or to wash out writinges. 1616 Withals' Dict. 563 Lutum luto purgare. To wash out incke with incke. 1763 H. Spens tr. Plato Republic iv. 151 Such wool as is not managed in this manner, you know what sort it proves; whether one is dying other colours, or this one, without the due preparation beforehand. I know, said he, that they are easily washen out. 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xxvi. 217 This Wilford is a noted duellist, and no doubt thirsts to wash out the insult he has received in blood. 1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám li. 11 Nor [shall] all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. 1932 R. Niebuhr Moral Man & Immoral Society (1933) iii. 81 It will prevent the idea of justice, which is a politico-ethical ideal, from becoming a purely political one, with the ethical element washed out. 1983 Sci. Amer. Feb. 86/3 Coronal structure hinted at in ordinary photographs is largely washed out by overexposure of the bright inner corona. (b) colloquial. To call off (an event), esp. because of bad weather; to eliminate (a possible course of action). Usually passive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > event, commitment to call off1900 to wash out1917 1917 A. S. G. Lee Let. 25 May in No Parachute (1968) 24 Today I have two patrols, one this morning..but after an hour it was washed out through bad weather. 1933 P. MacDonald Myst. Dead Police vii. 49 I'll get that murder charge washed out altogether. 1953 ‘N. Shute’ In Wet v. 149 If there's an awful lot of work before we go, I might have to wash it out. 1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 8 Apr. (1970) 104 When the commentator inquired about the possibility of McNamara [being Vice-President] and pointed out that he had been a registered Republican at one time, Lippman rather washed that one out. 1977 Belfast Tel. 14 Feb. 22/4 Bangor's first ever mid-week racing fixture..was washed out today when stewards inspected the course and found it waterlogged. (c) Air Force slang. To kill (an airman) in a crash; to crash (an aircraft); also (const. of or from), to withdraw (a person) from a course. Usually passive. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > [verb (transitive)] > withdraw from a course to wash out1918 the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by crashing to wash out1918 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (transitive)] > land > crash-land pile1891 crash1915 to wash out1918 prang1941 1918 J. M. Grider War Birds (1926) 87 Wholesale funerals... Six American Naval pilots..thought that Camels were as easy to fly as the Hanriots they had been flying in France and they wouldn't listen to any advice from the instructors here. Three of them were washed out one week. 1927 C. A. Lindbergh ‘We’ v. 73 Coupled with this was the anxiety of waiting for the returns from our examination papers, the failure of any two of which would be sufficient cause for their owner to be washed out from the courses. 1928 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 72 That Kiwi washed out the only peppy crate in the outfit. 1942 F. H. Joseph Lett. home from Brit. at War 16 Three planes were washed out completely, others damaged. 1943 Yank 30 July 18 The air cadet needed only 20 flying hours for his commission when he was suddenly washed out of advanced training and shipped. 1979 M. Hastings Bomber Command vi. 145 Owen was washed out of pilot training within a fortnight, and posted to learn to be a navigator. 14. trans. to wash down: to swallow liquor along with or after (solid food), in order to assist deglutition or digestion. Also with figurative object. Also rarely to wash over. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > wash down food to wash down1600 water1630 rinse1631 wet1878 1600 A. Munday et al. First Pt. True Hist. Sir I. Old-castle sig. I4v In this one draught I wash my sorrow downe. 1649 R. Lovelace Being treated, To Ellinda 4 Flutes of Canary That well did wash downe pasties-mary. 1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 193 I had three plentiful Meals, and some good Liquors to wash it down. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. ii. 26 Then a good cut out of the middle of a well-browned saddle of mutton, wash it over with a few glasses of iced champagne. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxviii. 380 This profound reflection Mr. Toodle washed down with a pint mug of tea. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ix. 151 This we washed down with a..‘bowl’ of mulled Bordeaux. 15. a. Of waves, running water, rain, etc.: To remove, dislodge, carry away; to carry or transport in a specified direction. With adverbs away, down, off, out, up, etc., or const. from, into, out of, etc. Also, to form or hollow out. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > cause to flow [verb (transitive)] > carry (away) by flowing wash1362 ravisha1500 float1606 horse1698 swill1850 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. x. 163 Til Fourti dawes ben folfuld þat þe flod haue I-wassche Clene awey þe cursede blod þat Caym haþ I-maket. a1500 Bernardus, etc. iii. 82 He walde þat A watter, or a well, hayd wecht it away. 1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 178 The water wassheth the earth..owte of the trais. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. v. 70 I thinke thoult wash him from his graue with teares. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) v. iv. 31 Bestride the Rock, the Tyde will wash you off. View more context for this quotation 1622 J. Taylor Very Merry Wherry-Ferry Voy. in Wks. (1769) ii. 10/2 The raging Sea..euery day..eateth further in, Still..wasting, washing downe the sand doth win. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 81 Wateris and burnes flowit wp over bank over bray, corne milnes and milne houssis waschin doun [etc.]. 1674 R. Head Jackson's Recantation sig. A2 A Clod of Earth, which..the least shower of Rheums [can] wash away to nothing. 1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland xiv. 81 Violent Currents of Water wash off the outer Coat of the Earth, and leave the Vein naked. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 180 That the Rain-water may spread equally, and not wash down the Ground. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 152 Several pieces of beef..had been washed out of the wreck. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. iii. 80 The river has washed away its banks. 1858 E. J. Trelawny Rec. Shelley, Byron 120 The other body was washed on shore three miles distant from Shelley's. 1883 Manch. Guard. 18 Oct. 4/7 The bodies of five seamen have been washed ashore. 1922 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Sept. 613/3 The Thames washed out a new course through a belt of soft clays. 1929 Times 30 Oct. 14/1 Trans-America, which closed last night at 61/ 2, opened today at 201/ 4,..—$840,000,000..nominally washed away over-night. b. To separate (metallic particles) by treating the containing earth with water. Also to wash out. ΚΠ 1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 177v These mynes..owght euer to bee soughte nere to sum ryuer..to thende that the golde maye bee wasshed. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 117 A peculiar way of washing out very small Dust-gold. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. v. 50 The washing the gold..from the sand and dirt, with which it is always mixed. 1920 Conquest May 324/1 Potassium and sodium cyanides are employed..for the purpose of washing out the gold from the quartz. c. Of a hard surface: To beat off waves and flotsam as they are borne against it. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > repel > something impinging or advancing repercuss?a1425 repulse?a1425 reverberatec1487 rebut1490 repel?1529 rebuff1697 wash1697 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 424 His solid sides Wash off the Sea-weeds, and the sounding Tides. d. intransitive. To be carried away or detached by moving water. Chiefly of soil, etc.: To be eroded or abraded, wear away by inundation. Chiefly with adv., as away, down. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > be carried away by flowing water washc1590 wash1815 c1590 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta i. ii. 451 Who..Thinke me to be a senselesse lumpe of clay That will with euery water wash to dirt. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler viii. 171 You must work or pound it [sc. your paste] so long in the Mortar, as to make it so tough as to hang upon your hook without washing from it. View more context for this quotation 1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland vii. 47 Whose Soil, by great Rains and Floods, washeth down into the Vallies. 1789 W. Jessop in Rep. Engin. Thames-Isis Navig. (1791) 23 If the Stones are set in moss and wrecked full of Gravel to prevent the Earth from Washing from behind thro' the Joints. 1821 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 17 Nov. 1190 It [sc. the soil] has great tenacity; does not wash away like sand, or light loam. 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 87 The loose and friable nature of this soil, which renders it so liable to ‘wash’. 1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 452 Our black soil is several feet in depth, and not rolling enough to wash to any considerable extent. 1884 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang through Texas ix. 119 On sloping ground, where the soil is light, the roads wash in wet weather, forming ravines. 16. To be tossed about, to be carried or driven along, by waves or stream. Also with up, ashore, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > be carried (away) by current or tide fleetc897 to-fleeta1122 wash1623 roll1665 tide1896 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > be carried away by flowing water washc1590 wash1815 1623 J. Taylor New Discouery by Sea A 5 These sands so shallow In which thou seest our ship thus wash and wallow. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 22 Four or five dead Bodies at a time..washing about the Decks. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 154 Our Bedding was..left washing in the Break of The Sea. 1815 Ann. Reg., Chron. 83 The vessel struck on the ground..and afterwards washed up against the piles on the west side. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. ix. 339 War-minister Narbonne is washed away by the Time-flood; poor Chevalier de Grave, chosen by the Court, is fast washing away. 1880 Times 17 Dec. 5/6 The Adolph..is reported..to be total wreck. Cargo washing ashore. 1907 Daily Chron. 26 Sept. 6/5 I was glad to lay hold of a spar that washed by me. 1947 G. Greene 19 Stories 74 And so he'd washed up here, under my eyes, sitting all day under the band~stand. 17. Rowing. a. transitive. To steer so as to impede (a competitor) by the ‘wash’ of one's own boat. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > race boats [verb (transitive)] > row a race > actions in rowing race bump1826 wash1865 overbump1900 overrate1960 1865 Field 26 Aug. 152/2 His next step, when half a length ahead, was to edge in as much as he dare in front of Kelley, notwithstanding the admonition of the umpire, for the purpose of washing him. 1872 Field Q. Mag. III. 107/1 [Cambridge] passed under the Middlesex arch of Barnes Bridge..a length and a half ahead of the Oxonians, who, to escape being washed, elected to pass under the centre span. b. intransitive in phrase to wash out, to fail to lift out the blade of the oar squarely at the finish of the stroke. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > row in specific manner or style sheave1611 to pull away1676 paddle1697 to stretch one's oars1697 to stretch to the oar (or stroke)1697 to row dry1769 to stretch out1836 screw1866 bucket1869 to pull one's weight1878 sky1881 to wash out1884 1884 St. James's Gaz. 28 Mar. 6/2 Stroke and No. 4 were washing out and rowing light in the finish of the stroke. 18. slang. To murder. Also with away. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > murder or assassinate [verb (transitive)] amurderOE murderc1175 homicidec1470 murdresc1480 murtrish1490 manquell1548 slaughter1582 massacre1591 assassinate1600 remove1609 assassin1620 to do the business for a person1759 Septembrize1794 croak1823 square1888 shift1898 to take out1900 to bump off1907 bump1914 to do in1914 to put out1917 to knock off1919 terminate1920 to give (a person) the works1929 scrag1930 snuff1932 wash1941 waste1964 wipe1968 to terminate with extreme prejudice1969 neutralize1970 snuff1973 stiff1974 1941 in B. A. Botkin Treasury Amer. Folklore (1944) i. 124 So Stack, with his gun handle filled with notches, knowed there was a reward out for him for men he had washed away. 1960 ‘E. McBain’ See them Die (1963) v. 48 ‘This Alfredo kid, he not sush a bad guy.’ ‘He's getting washed and that's it.’ 1979 P. Hill Washermen xxiv. 54 They had broken the code... The Washermen must be washed. V. In Mechanics. 19. Mechanics. transitive. to wash off, to cut to a slope or bevel. to wash down (see quot. 1909). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline [verb (transitive)] > bevel cant1542 splay1598 chamfret1611 cipher1674 bevel1678 bezel1680 chamfer1688 champer1788 scarf1831 to wash off1833 splay1879 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > sharpen or put edge on whetc897 strokec1400 set1461 filour1483 sharpen1530 to wash down1909 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1117 The sole for the [window-] frame..to be washed off (sloped) on the outside to carry off the rain. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. To wash down, Mech., to work to a thin edge or featheredge. Scot. VI. In extended use: to subject to a procedure regarded as comparable to washing. 20. slang. a. Printing. To punish or ‘rag’ (a fellow-workman for telling falsehoods) by hammering on his desk. Cf. washing n. 5a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (transitive)] > hammer on desk (of colleague) wash1841 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 810. b. Stockbroking. To subject (stock) to a ‘wash’: see wash n. 20. [Perhaps originally with allusion to the phrase ‘one hand washes the other’ (see sense 3d).] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > specific operations subscribe1618 to take up1655 to sell out1721 to take in1721 to take up1740 pool?1780 capitalize1797 put1814 feed1818 to vote (the) stock (or shares)1819 corner1836 to sell short1852 promote1853 recapitalize1856 refund1857 float1865 water1865 margin1870 unload1870 acquire1877 maintain1881 syndicate1882 scalp1886 pyramid1888 underwrite1889 oversubscribe1891 joint-stock1894 wash1895 write1908 mark1911 split1927 marry1931 stag1935 unwind1958 short1959 preplace1966 unitize1970 bed and breakfast1974 index-link1974 warehouse1977 daisy-chain1979 strip1981 greenmail1984 pull1986 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. 1903 S. S. Pratt Work of Wall St. 146 The syndicate may be washing sales by matched orders through curb brokers in order to market watered stock. c. = launder v. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > other money-dealing operations to part stakes (also shares)1553 marshal1771 float1872 squeeze1885 hedge1909 block1932 to lock in1950 divest1962 reintermediate1971 launder1973 wash1973 1973 Black Panther 30 June 2/2 The money had been ‘washed’ through the Mexican bank passing off as a legal fee to the Mexican lawyer in order to conceal the source of the donation. 1977 B. Freemantle Charlie Muffin xii. 127 We must wash the money... If that money isn't broken down, Kalenin..just won't cross. 1981 R. Thomas Mordida Man xxvii. 237 What was their payoff for washing the money? Compounds C1. The verb-stem in combination. a. Combinations of wash- + object, ‘(some one or something) that washes’, as wash-dish n. 1, wash-hand adj., wash-mouth n. b. Originally U.S. Prefixed to names of garments and fabrics, with the sense ‘washable’: e.g. in wash-chamois, wash-foulard, wash-glacé kid, wash-glove, wash-gown, wash-pants, wash-ribbon, wash-silk, wash-waist.In these combinations wash is often written as if a separate adjective. Cf. washing adj. ΚΠ 1888 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 23 June 6/3 Rural retreats where she can sleep ten hours out of the twenty-four, wear wash-gowns, and live out of doors all day long. 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 168 He wore neckties of wash-ribbon—which, though it cost more per yard than the ordinary ribbon, I found the most inexpensive in the end—without a bark of dissatisfaction. 1914 A. Rives World's-end (ed. 6) xii A soft gown of white wash-silk fell in straight folds to her feet. 1941 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 3 July 10/7 (advt.) Mens & boys swim trunks, wash pants, slack suits, sport shirts, etc. 1972 J. Maryland in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out 210 Red and grown out of wash pants and levis to Oleg Cassini imported mohair suits. c. In mining terms, denoting material from which metal is to be obtained by washing. wash-gravel n. = wash-dirt n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > auriferous gravel alluvial1818 placer1829 gravel1849 washing-stuff1853 pay gravel1857 wash-gravel1860 wash-dirt1862 the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > suitable for washing wash-ore1653 wash-gravel1860 wash-dirt1862 washa1875 1860 in Occas. Papers Univ. Sydney Austral. Lang. Res. Centre (1966) No. 9. 27 The runs of gold and lower deposits are not traceable to reefs but to made hills, composed principally of water-worn quartz nodules and debris, often cemented together with ferruginous matter, the wash~gravel resting on whitish or yellow felspathic schist. 1891 Cent. Dict. Wash-gravel. Wash-stuff. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > suitable for washing wash-ore1653 wash-gravel1860 wash-dirt1862 washa1875 1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 270 Stringes of oar, Wash-oar, and Pumps. C2. (Not all clearly distinguishable from the Combinations listed in wash n. Compounds 1.) Attributive combinations of wash- (often synonymous with parallel combinations of washing n.). a. Denoting things or places used for washing, or persons employed in washing clothes. wash-boy n. ΚΠ 1900 Wide World Mag. Oct. 97/2 We asked of one of the Celestials (our own wash-boy for the past seven years) permission to take a photograph of the queer scene. wash-cloth n. wash-jug n. ΚΠ 1927 W. de la Mare Stuff & Nonsense 54 It galloped up bolsters and wash-jugs and chairs. 1946 S. Spender European Witness ii. 18 A large enamel wash-jug. wash-place n. ΚΠ 1774 J. Woodforde Diary 15 Oct. (1924) I. 141 I caught a remarkable large Spider in my Wash Place. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. xi. 130 The lift and force pumps draw from the sea-suctions of the various 9-inch Downton's, to supply the baths, wash places, galleys, etc. wash-rag n. now U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [noun] > washing-cloth or leather washen leatherc1425 wash-leather1681 shammy-leather1714 washing-leather1784 wash-rag1890 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > washing the hands > vessel for washing the hands (and face) > face-cloth face cloth1584 wash-rag1890 face flannel1898 flannel1906 wash-cloth1915 washer1951 oshibori1956 1890 E. L. Bynner Begum's Daughter iv She employed the interval while her guests were at their luncheon in plying the wash-rag and comb. 1899 B. C. Hirst Text-bk. Obstetr. v. ii. 677 Scrubbing the genital region most thoroughly with soap, hot water, and a soft bristle brush or a wash-rag. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby ii. 27 ‘It's more of an Airedale.’ He passed his hand over the brown washrag of a back. 1964 S. Bellow Herzog 257 He got into her ears with the washrag as she screamed, cleaned off her face, the nostrils, wiped her mouth. 1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) v. 192 Her momma's a washrag and her daddy's a redneck. wash-solution n. ΚΠ 1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 18 The solution to wash the gas... The small tube passes down into the wash solution. wash-tray n. ΚΠ 1909 ‘Q’ True Tilda xx Two long wash-trays stood ready and steaming. wash-vessel n. ΚΠ 1841 S. Clegg Treat. Coal-gas 110 If after condensation ‘dry lime’ is used for purifying, the gas must pass through a wash-vessel. b. Also in combinations denoting machinery used for washing in various industrial processes. wash-drill n. ΚΠ 1907 Contrib. Econ. Geol., U.S. Geol. Surv., Bulletin 648 The borings through the alluvium were made by the ‘wash drill’ or ‘water jet’. wash-stocks n. ΚΠ 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 813/2 [article Bleaching] The wash-stocks..consists of a trough or box for holding the goods to be washed, through which a constant stream of water is passing. wash-wheel n. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 417 [article Dyeing] The hydraulic relations refer to the wash-wheels and other similar apparatus. 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 331 Fig. 94 shows a view of the lime-vats,..while in the background is shown the ‘wash-wheel’. C3. wash-and-wear n. originally U.S. the property of a garment or fabric of being easily washed, drying readily, and needing no ironing; usually attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > other smalleOE lightc1230 round1402 side-necked1430 wanton1489 Spanish1530 tucked1530 lustya1555 civil1582 open-breasted1598 full1601 everlasting1607 sheeten1611 nothinga1616 burly1651 pin-up1677 slouching1691 double-breasted1701 negligée1718 translated1727 uniform1746 undress1777 single-breasted1796 unworn1798 mamalone1799 costumic1801 safeguard1822 Tom and Jerry1830 lightweight1837 fancy dress1844 wrap-1845 hen-skin1846 Mary Stuart1846 well-cut1849 mousquetaire1851 empire1852 costumary1853 solid1859 spring weight1869 Henri II1870 western1881 hard-boiled1882 man-of-war1883 Henley1886 demi-season1890 Gretchen1890 toreador1892 crossover1893 French cut1896 drifty1897 boxy1898 Buster Brown1902 Romney1903 modistic1907 Peter Pan1908 classic1909 Fauntleroy1911 baby doll1912 flared1928 flare1929 tuck-in1929 unpressed1932 Edwardian1934 swingy1937 topless1937 wraparound1937 dressed-down1939 cover-up1942 Sun Yat-sen1942 utility1942 non-utility1948 sudsable1951 off-the-shoulder1953 peasant1953 flareless1954 A-line1955 matador1955 stretch1956 wash-and-wear1959 layered1962 Tom Jones1964 Carnaby Street1965 Action Man1966 Mao-style1967 wear-dated1968 thermal1970 bondage1980 swaggery1980 hoochie1990 mitumba1990 kinderwhore1994 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > other grisette1700 mesh1725 poodle1827 albatross1877 momie1880 velvet-cloth1882 mummy cloth1886 poodle cloth1896 thorn-proof1908 blackout1941 wash-and-wear1959 breathable1961 Pertex1982 1959 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 493/1 Wash and wear suits... Launder by hand or washing machine... Machine-dry or drip-dry. 1966 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 Feb. 1/1 Permanent press differs from wash-and-wear... Wash-and-wear doesn't involve baking, but rather depends on the blending of synthetic and natural fibers for wrinkle resistance. Also, wash-and-wear has no permanent crease. 1981 M. Clark & P. Swaine Home Managem. x. 251 The more sophisticated American machines may have a choice of programmes, e.g...synthetics with pre-wash, wash and wear and cold wash. 1981 M. C. Smith Gorky Park i. xii. 164 Parties the Film-Makers Union gave for foreign guests, where the civilized appreciation of a bottle of French perfume or a wash-and-wear skirt was routine. wash-beetle n. a wooden mallet for beating clothes as part of the process of washing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > implement for beating clothes battledorec1440 washing-beetlec1440 wash-beetlea1575 batting-staff1611 batlera1616 posser1764 batting-log1798 paddle1884 washing bat1898 a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 276 One in Kent..all to beat her yokemate with a washbeetle or battledore. wash-bench n. U.S. a bench on which washing is done. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > surface on which washing is done or beaten washing-stock1417 washing-block1590 washing-board1810 washing-stone1813 wash-bench1843 slop-stone1882 1843 New Mirror 8 Apr. 4/2 Swapped away for a wash-bench or an ironing-board. 1884 G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier I. xxi. 157 She had reached down and taken from the wash-bench the lump of yellow soap. 1969 N. W. Parsons Upon Sagebrush Harp xxiv. 132 The man was wiping his neck on the roller towel hung above the outdoor washbench. wash-boiler n. (see quot. 1875). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > vessel for washing clothes in wash-bowla1529 buck1530 boyne1532 washing-tub1560 wash-tub1602 bucking-tub1615 buck-vat1620 washing-bowl1622 swill1624 possing tub1659 suds-tub1805 bucking-vat1822 bucking-keir1823 peggy tub1823 poss-tub1829 pounding barrel1853 posskit1855 wash-boiler1875 washpot1926 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2726/2 Wash boiler, a domestic boiler for clothes. 1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie (1917) vii. 124 While Sarah Hood cooked other things, and made a wash-boiler of coffee. wash-bottle n. Chemistry (a) a bottle containing liquid through which gases may be passed for purification; (b) a bottle with a mouthpiece and issue tube, for directing a stream of liquid on a substance or utensil to be washed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [noun] > washing-bottle wash-bottle1849 washing-bottle1857 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > removal of impurities from gas or vapour > [noun] > apparatus for purificator?1813 purifier1834 wash-bottle1849 scrubber1853 washer1853 washing-bottle1857 precipitron1938 1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 40 This gas..is partially purified by passing through a wash-bottle containing caustic potash or soda. 1912 Nature 19 Dec. 437/2 The experiment succeeds about equally well even when distilled water from a wash-bottle is substituted for powerful reagents. wash-brush n. a large brush for ‘washing’ or laying on washes of colour. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > brush > types of pencila1350 calaber pencil1583 washing-brush1585 softener1756 hair-pencil1763 camel('s) hair pencil1771 pound brush1780 dabberc1790 varnishing brush1825 writer1825 red sable1859 sweetener1859 varnish brush1859 fitch1873 sable-brush1873 wash-brush1873 Poona brush1875 hake1882 rigger1883 airbrush1884 liner1886 sable1891 stippler1891 aerograph1898 mop brush1904 filbert brush1950 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 6/2 To tint large surfaces, a large camel-hair brush is used, termed a Wash-brush. 1901 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 470/1 She produced from her pocket my wash-brush... ‘What in the world is a brush of that size used for?’ she went on. wash-cloth n. U.S. a facecloth. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > washing the hands > vessel for washing the hands (and face) > face-cloth face cloth1584 wash-rag1890 face flannel1898 flannel1906 wash-cloth1915 washer1951 oshibori1956 1915 G. Stratton-Porter M. O'Halloran i. 20 The pieces he saved for washcloths. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female xii. 262 A baby's face gently washed with a supersoft wash-cloth. 1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. (Parade Suppl). 14 e/1 (advt.) Bath towel, hand towel & washcloth—all cuddly cotton terry. wash-deck n. Nautical attributive used in, or pertaining to, the washing of the deck of a ship; wash-deck tub (slang), a small boat, with decks easily washed by the sea. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [adjective] > relating to washing of deck wash-deck1878 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > small vessel > small boat > and fragile bauble1596 walnut-shell1614 cockleshell1786 wash-deck tub1878 1878 E. Wakeman Log of Anc. Mariner ii. 41 Him I had lowered from the bow one dark night, into the wash-deck tub, in which he paddled to a little schooner close to. 1884 Naval Encycl. 835/1 Wash~deck Gear, the brooms, squilgees, holy-stones, buckets, etc., used in washing decks. 1901 F. T. Bullen Sack of Shakings 98 One morning, at wash-deck time, when I was prowling around forrard [etc.]. 1901 F. T. Bullen Sack of Shakings 115 The wash-deck tub was hauled forrard. 1938 ‘C. S. Forester’ Ship of Line i. 22 His captain's admission that he, too, had baths under the washdeck pump. wash-dyke n. dialect = wash-pool n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep washing or dipping > place wash-dyke1765 wash-pool1827 sheep-dip1865 dip1871 soak-hole1881 dipper1891 1765 Local Act, Road Barton–Riseham, Lincs. 9 Sheep going to or returning from any Wash~dyke. Thesaurus » Categories » wash-gourd n. the loofah (Webster Suppl. 1902), also called washing-, towel-gourd. wash-kettle n. U.S. a kettle in which water is heated for washing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > kettle for heating washing water wash-kettle1787 1787 Kentucke Gaz. 24 Nov. 2/3 Samuel Blair, Has for sale..a Quantity of excellent..copper and brass wash kettles. 1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 23 They put wash-kettles on the fire for soup, for coffee. 1973 A. Dundes Mother Wit p. xiii The custom of placing an inverted wash kettle in the center of the floor during a prayer meeting so that the sounds of the singing might go into the pot and thereby not disturb the white folks. wash-kitchen n. [= German waschküche] a kitchen used for washing clothes. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > place where washing is done lavendry1377 washing-house14.. bucking-stoke1483 laundry1577 wash-house1577 laundry-house1585 bucking-house1597 wash-yardc1625 lavatory1661 buck-house1738 woman-house1754 wash-kitchen1838 water-shed1859 washery1875 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > utility rooms > specific still1533 stillatory?1600 still-roomc1710 scullery1753 sink-room1823 wash-kitchen1838 wash-up1869 1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron xxix. 206 Preparations were made for the wedding which she chose to have performed in the wash-kitchen instead of our parlour. 1909 ‘Q’ True Tilda xx One for Tilda in the wash-kitchen itself, the other for Arthur Miles in a small outhouse adjoining. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 573 It was the daughter of the mother in the washkitchen that was fostersister to the heir of the house. wash-line n. chiefly U.S. = washing-line n. at washing n. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > clothesline clothesline1702 rope1812 wash-line1890 rotary clothes line1959 1890 K. D. Wiggin Timothy's Quest 48 There's lots of baby-clothes hanging on the wash~lines. 1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden vii. 56 They stole..garments from a wash line. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 157 Wash line winders are usually strictly utilitarian objects, without any collector interest. wash-pan n. U.S. a metal wash bowl; a pan for washing ore. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore vat1802 wash-pan1851 society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for gold scour1619 rocker1828 cradle1833 pan1835 Long Tom1839 Tom1839 wash-bowl1848 gold washer1849 sluice1851 wash-pan1851 tub1853 gold pan1854 mining pan1858 pan mill1869 Tommy1892 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > washing the hands > vessel for washing the hands (and face) washela1375 laverc1394 washing-bowl1530 washpot1535 washing-basin1538 cistern1577 lavacre1657 lavatorya1676 chillumchee1715 wash-hand basin1760 wash-dish1805 washbasin1812 wash-bowl1816 chamber set1824 toilet bowl1850 wash-pan1851 lavatory basin1854 wash sink1857 lavatory bowl1872 wash-trough1902 pedestal basin1967 pedestal washbasin1967 vanity basin1972 w.h.b.1975 1851 S. Rutter Hints to Gold Hunters 12 The principal use of the washpan is in rewashing the partially washed stuff taken from the rocker. 1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. 124 A ‘prospecter’ goes with a pick and shovel, and a wash-pan. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxvii. 316 We..scratched around and found an old tin washpan. 1946 G. Wilson Fidelity Folks 175 The tin washpan or the creek was good enough for that. wash-pen n. Australian and New Zealand the pen into which sheep are driven to await their turn to be washed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep washing or dipping > pen for assembly wash-pen1855 1855 H. Phillips Jrnl. (typescript) 20 John went with him to Wash-pen in afternoon. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xii Shearers' huts, wash-pens, machinery, and woolshed. wash-pitcher n. U.S. a ewer for the toilet. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > washing the hands > vessel for washing the hands (and face) > pitcher or water-jug ewer14.. wash-pitcher1852 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) i Eliza had upset the wash-pitcher. wash sink n. U.S. a sink for washing oneself. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > washing the hands > vessel for washing the hands (and face) washela1375 laverc1394 washing-bowl1530 washpot1535 washing-basin1538 cistern1577 lavacre1657 lavatorya1676 chillumchee1715 wash-hand basin1760 wash-dish1805 washbasin1812 wash-bowl1816 chamber set1824 toilet bowl1850 wash-pan1851 lavatory basin1854 wash sink1857 lavatory bowl1872 wash-trough1902 pedestal basin1967 pedestal washbasin1967 vanity basin1972 w.h.b.1975 1857 Lawrence (Kansas Territory) Republican 2 July 4 ‘Here are all the conveniences for washing,’ said the landlord, stepping to a mahogany wash sink and raising the lid. 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxix. 270 It was a small room..with a wash-sink in one corner. wash-table n. a table for holding a wash-hand basin and ewer. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > washing table Rudd's table1788 wash-hand stand1789 Rudd1793 wash-hand table1863 wash-table1908 1908 Daily Report 28 Aug. 8/2 Although late in the Empire period the square variety of wash-table was sometimes used, it is clear that [etc.]. Draft additions June 2022 Finance (chiefly British). to wash its face: (of an organization, enterprise, asset, etc.) to reach a point when profits are equal to costs, or there is no net gain or loss; to achieve a financially balanced outcome; to break even. Cf. wash n. Additions. ΚΠ 1946 Hansard Commons 15 May 1959 As regards its financial transactions, it should meet all its liabilities, it should pay its way, wash its face—use what terms you like. 1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 15 Jan. 14 [The company]..contributed £3.7m after financing costs in the year to September and roughly washed its face in cash flow terms. 1993 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 19 Mar. UK imports from Hong Kong stand at pounds 2.5 billion, which means that it is one of the few major trading areas of the world where the UK has been washing its face. 2021 liverpoolecho.co.uk (Nexis) 17 July This property is not going to wash its face, it's actually going to make cash flow which is really important. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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