wash

& a. [WASH, v.] A. As substantive : I. Ordinary Language: 4459 3. The quantity of clothes, linen, or the like washed at one time. 4. The flow or sweep of a body of water; a dashing against or rushing over. as of the tide or waves. "Katie walks By the long wash of Austral asian seas." Tennyson: The Brook. 5. The rough water left behind by a rowing-boat, a steam-launch, steamer, or the like. "The wash that might have damaged the start of the Thames crew."-London Daily Telegraph. 6. A piece of ground washed by the action of the sea or river, or sometimes overflowed and sometimes left dry; a shallow part of a river or of an arm of the sea; also, a mora , a marsh, a bog, a quagmire. "These Lincoln washes have devoured them." Shakesp.: King John, v. 6. 7. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water, such as alluvium and the like. [WARP, 8., 11. 1, 2.] "The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rainwater hath a long time settled, is of great ad. vantage to all land."-Mortimer: Husbandry. 8. Waste liquor, consisting of the refuse of food, collected from the washed dishes of the kitchen, and often used as food for pigs; swill, swillings. "The stillne of a sow at her wash ."-South: Sermons, vol. i., ser. 1. 9. A liquid preparation with which the surface of anything is washed, painted, tinted, coated, smeared, moistened, or the like; as (1) A liquid used for toilet purposes, such as a cosmetic, a liquid dentifrice, a hair-wash, . "He tried all manner of washes to bring him to a better complexion; but there was no good to be done."L'Estrange. (2) A medical preparation for external application; a lotion. (3) A thin coating of color spread over surfaces of a painting. (4) A thin coat of metal applied to anything for beauty or preservation. "Imagination stamps signification upon his face, and tells the people he is to go for so much, who oftentimes being deceived by the wash , never examine the metal, but take him upon content."-Collier. 10. The blade of an oar. 11. A measure for shell-fish. (See extract.) "Each smack takes with her for the voyage about forty wash of whelks, the wash being a regular measure which holds twenty-one quarts and a pint of water."Ca ell's Nat . Hist ., v. 60. II. Distilling : 1. Fermented Wort. It usually contains from 4 to 7 per cent. of alcohol by weight. The alcohol is first recovered from the wash by distillation, and the crude product purified by a second distillation -the finished article being neutral alcohol, whisky, or rum, according to the ingredients from which the wort was obtained. 2. A mixture of dunder, mola es, scummings, and water used in the West Indies for distillation. ( Bryan Edwards .) *B. As adj .: Washy, weak. "They're only made for handsome view, not handling; Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper." Beaum. & Flet.: Bonduc a, iv. 1. wash-back, s. [BACK (2), s., B. II.] washing places. Through each perforation is pa ed a piece of bent gla tubing, one being carried to within half an inch of the bottom of the flask, and the portion of tubing outside drawn to a fine open point. The other tube is carried just within the bottle, and it is to the outer end of this that the lips are applied in blowing into the apparatus in order to expel the liquid contained in it, water, alcohol, or ether, as the case may be.