washiness (woshines)

The state of being washy, watery, or worthle ; want of strength. washing (wosh'ing), n. [ waschynge, we inge, waschunge, John wondered why the Me ias, the Lamb of God, pure and without spot, who needed not the abstersions of repentance, or the washings of baptism, should demand it. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), L. 95. 2. Clothes washed, especially those washed at one time; a wash.-3. The result of washing; that which is washed from something else, as gold dust. - To give one's head for washingt, to submit to insult. So am I, and forty more good fellows, that will not give their heads for the washing , I take it. Beau , and Fl ., Cupid's Revenge, iv. 3. washing-bear (wosh'ing-bar), n. The wash-bear or racoon, Procyon lot or: so called from its habit of putting its food into water before eating it, as if to wash it. See lot or, and cut under racoon. condition; a beating-engine.-5. In plumbing, the outlet of a cistern. It includes the pipe, the joint or union, and the plug, as for a basin. window- washer, gold- washer.-7. In coal-min-6. A washing-machine: as, a clothes- washer, ing (short for coal - washer ), any machine for washing coal. In the Pennsylvania anthracite region the coal is sometimes washed by jets of water, and sep a rated from the slate, pyrites, and other refuse by jigging. The number of machines which have been invented in different countries for washing coal is very great, but most of them are based on some form or modification of the jig of the metal-miner. 8. The wagtail, a bird. Also dish - washer, peggy dish-washer, moll- washer, molly or polly washdish, washtail, nanny washtail, etc. See cut under wagtail.-9. The wash-bear.- Beveled washer. See beveled. washer (wosh'er), v. t. [ I had worked myself up, as I always do, in the manner of heavy men; growing hot like an ill- washered wheel revolving, though I start with a cool axle. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, lxx. He washered the knobs of the doors that had a rattling play whenever handled. Sci . Amer ., N. S., LV. 160.