washing shield (wos hings held)

In wash ing, a ridged or corrugated shield for the palm of the hand, or a shield at once to protect the person and supply a surface on which to rub the clothes. E. H. Knight. Washington canvasback. Same as redhead, 2. Washington cedar. 1. See cedar, 2, and cut under Sequoia.-2. Thuya gigantea. See Thuya. Washingtonia (wosh-ing-to'ni-ä), n. [NL. (Wendland, 1879), named after George Wash ington (1732-99), first President of the United States.) A genus of palms, of the tribe Cory pheæ. It is characterized by bisexual flowers with slightly imbricated segments, and a three-lobed ovary with elongated filiform style. The albumen of the seed is uniform, like that of the related genera Corypha and Sabal, but the embryo, unlike the others, is sub-basilar. There is but one species clearly known, W. filifera, native of southern California and the adjacent border, called as wash - stand . He. locked the door, piled a washhand -stand , chest of drawers, and table against it. Dickens, Pickwick, xxxvi, desert - palm , and locally fan - palm and San Diego palm , It produces a tall robust cylindrical trunk, enlarged at the base, often 40, sometimes 75, feet high, crowned by a cluster of light-green circular plicate leaves with from 40 to 60 folds about 4 feet acro , cleft nearly to the middle into induplicate segments fringed with fine white pendu bright melted tin, in which each sheet of iron, after it has left the tin-pot and had the super- fluous metal removed from it with a hempen brush, receives its final coating of tin. From the wash-pot the sheet pa es to the "patent-pot," and from this to the steel rollers by which the coating of tin is made smooth and uniform. This is the modern method of manufacture, now almost universally followed in Wales. wash-rag (wosh'rag), n. A small piece of cloth used in washing the person. She employed the interval while her guests were at their luncheon in plying the wash - rag and comb, to such good effect that Cinder ell a suffered no greater transformation at the hands of the fairy godmother. wash-stand (wosh's tand), n. A piece of furni- ture like a table, with or without a lower shelf, drawers, and a back, arranged to hold a basin and ewer and other appurtenances for washing the person. Since the introduction of elaborate plumb- ing, the name is given also to the set or fixed wash-bowl, with a marble slab above, and wooden inclosure or support of the basin and pipes, with the faucets, and other conve- niences. I returned, sought the sponge on the washstand , the salts in my drawer, and once more retraced my steps. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, xx. [Local, Eng.] wash-tub (wosh'tub), n. A tub for washing, especially one in which clothes are washed. The vulgar words wash - tub , shoe-horn, brew-house, cook- stove,. which are merely slovenly and uncouth abbre- via tions of washing-tub, shoeing-horn, brewing-house, and cooking-stove. R. G. White , Words and their Uses, p. 232. washy (wosh'i), a . [ wash + -y1.] 1. Wa- tery; damp; moist; soft: as, "the washy ooze," Milton , P. L., vii. 303.-2. Too much diluted; weak; thin: as, washy tea. Hence-3. Wanting in solidity, substantial- ne , strength, stamina, or the like; feeble; worthle . Dryden, Epil. to the King and Queen (1682). Washy he is, perhaps not over-sound. Fraternity of Vagabonds (1561), quoted in Ribton- [Turner's Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 594. Washoe proce . See pan1 , 3. wash-off (wosh'ôf), a . [ wash off : see under wash, v.] In calico - printing , fugitive; that will not stand washing: applied to certain colors or dyes. [Colloq.] washout (wosh'out), n. [ wash out : see under wash, v.] The excavation, by erosive action of water, of a part of a road-bed, the bank of a stream, a hillside, or the like; also, the hole or break resulting from such excavation. IMG:content-2091.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Figuratively, a person characterized by ill nature, petulance, peevishne , irritability, or petty malignity. Come, come, you wasp ; i' faith, you are too angry. Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 210. Golden wasp. Same as goldwasp . - Great-tailed wasp, Urocerus (or Sirex ) gigas . - Northern wasp, Ves- pa borealis . -Tailed wasps, the Siricidæ or Urocerida (which see).-Wasp's-nest boil, a sort of carbuncle situ- ated on the nape of the neck, usually only in people of ad- vanced years. wasp-bee (wosp'bē), n. A cuckoo-bee; any bee of the genus Nomada . wasp-beetle (wosp'bē"tl), n. A beetle of the genus Clytus , as as the British C. arietis , or of a related longicorn genus, as the American Cyl- lene pictus: so called from their wasp-like maculation. wasp-fly (wosp'fli), n. A British syrphid fly, Chrysotoxum fasciola tum , spotted with yellow on a black ground, and thus somewhat resem- bling a hornet. wasp-grub (wosp'grub), n. The larva of a wasp, used for bait by anglers. [Eng.] waspish (wos'pish), a . [ wasp + -ish1 .] Like a wasp in any way. (a) Having a very slender waist, like the petiole of a wasp's abdomen; wasp-waisted; tight- laced. (b) Quick to resent any trifle, injury, or affront; snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible. In aige [they be] sone testie, very waspishe , and alwaies ouer miserable. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 33. Ah! thou knowest not Her waspish - headed son has broke his arrows. Shak ., Tempest, iv. 1. 99. waspishly (wos'pish-li), adv . In a waspish manner; so as to be like a wasp in any re- wespe); with formative -s, perhaps wap1 , strike). The word has appar. nothing to do with Gr. σφήξ , a wasp (with which cf. Gael. speach , a wasp, speach , bite).] 1. Any one of several families, many genera, and very numerous species of aculeate hymenopterous insects, whose wings fold lengthwise in a peculiar manner when the insects IMG:content-2092.jpg:[blocks in formation] hence collectively called Diploptera . Most wasps dig holes for themselves, whence they are also called Fos- sores (though not all are fo orial). There are 13 families cid a (or Sphegidæ ), Larri- dæ , Ny onidæ, Bembecidæ, Philanthidæ, Pemphredoni- dæ , Crabronida , Masaridæ , Eumenida , and Vespid a. The members of the first ten of these families are indis- criminately known as dig . ger- wasps ; those of the last three are wasps more strictly so called. The Masaridæ and Eumenidæ , like all the dig- ger-wasps, are of solitary habits, and are hence known as solitary wasps (which see, under solitary). The Ves- pidæ alone are social wasps . Nest of Solitary Wasp (Eumenes). wasp-tonguedt (wosp'tungd), a. Petulant- tongued; shrewish. why, what a wasp - tongued [var. wasp - stung ] and imp a Rob . of Gloucester (ed. Hearne), p. 117. Hingistus hauing inuited King Vortiger to a Supper, shee [Rowena] came into the Kings presence, with a cup of gold filled with wine in her hand, and, mak- ing a low reuerence vnto the King, sayd. heal hlaford Cyning," which is, being rightly expounded according to our present speech, be of health Lord king. Verstegan, Rest. of Decayed Intelligence (ed. 1628), p. 127. Then lift the can to bearded lip, And smite each sounding shield; Wa aile ! to every dark-ribbed ship, To every battle-field! IMG:content-2093.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2094.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A festive occasion or meeting where drinking and pledging of healths are indulged in; festivities; a drinking-bout; a carouse. The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wa ail . Shak ., Hamlet, i. 4. 9. 3. The liquor used on such occasions; specifically, ale, mixed with a smaller amount of wine, sweetened and flavored with spices, fruit, etc. Wa ail , or rather the wa ail bowl,... was a bowl of spiced ale formerly carried about by young women on New-year's eve. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 466. But let no footstep beat the floor, Nor bowl of wa ail mantle warm. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cv. 41. A merry drinking-song. Have you done your wa ail ? 'tis a handsome drowsy ditty, I'll a ure you. Beau , and Fl . , Woman-Hater, iii. 1. =Syn. 2. Revel, Debauch , etc. See carousalı , wa ail (wos'āl), v . [Also wa el ; wa ail , n . ] I. trans. To drink to the health or prosperity of: as, to wa ail the apple (an old custom on Christmas eve). Wa aile the Trees, that they may beare You many a Plum, and many a Peare; For more or le e fruits they will bring, As you doe give them Wa ailing. Herrick , Hesperides, Ceremonies for Christmas, iv. The ceremony of wa ailing the apple orchard on Twelfth Night is said to be obsolete. The Academy , April 19, 1890, p. 265. II. in trans. To drink healths; carouse. Spending all the day, and a good part of the night, in dancing, carolling, and wa ailing . Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iii. wa ail-bout (wos'al-bout), n. Same as was sail , 2. Many a wa ail - bout Wore the long winter out. Long fellow, Skeleton in Armor.