wartweed (wartwed)

The sun-spurge, Eu- wary2t, v. t. Same as warry. Same as warison. phorbia Helios cop i a, the acrid milky juice of warysonet, n. which is used to cure warts. Also cat's - milk, was (woz), v. [ IMG:content-2085.png:[blocks in formation] rucose; warty; having a wart or warts; stud-pearing in the form of nearly parallel rows of wart-like tu ded with warts. - Warted gourds, varieties of winter squash with a warted rind. -Warted gra , an Aus tralian gra , Chloris ventricosa, with other species of its genus useful for grazing. a wart; of or relating to a wart or warts; covered with warts or wart-like excrescences; verrucous. Warty cicatricial tumor, a new growth, apcoming on occasionally scars. It usually ulcerates, forming the warty ulcer. - Warty sea-rose, the sea-anemone Urticina nodosa - Warty ulcer, Marjolin's ulcer; an ulcer resulting from the breaking down of a warty cicatricial tumor. - Warty venus. See Venus. was, wes, wæs, pl. 1, 2, 3 were, ware, wore, weren, waren, woren, weoren, IMG:content-2086.png:[blocks in formation] theme am , nor with be ; but it has come to be used to supply the preterit of the verb be . See bel.] A verb-form used to supply the past tense of the verb be : as, I was , thou wast or wert, he was ; we, you, or they were . In the subjunctive, I were , thou wert , he were ; we, you, they were , etc. In war was never lion raged more fierce, In peace was never gentle lamb more mild. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 1. 178. Nay, nay, God wot, so thou wert nobly born Thou hast a pleasant presence. IMG:content-2087.png:[blocks in formation] 6. To overwhelm and carry along (in some specified direction) by or as by a rush of water: as, a man washed overboard; debris washed up by the storm; roast beef washed down with ale. These dainties must be washd downe well with wine, With sacke & sugar, egges & muskadine. A scene which I should see Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 87. With double joy wert thou with me. I don't want my wreck to be washed up on one of the Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 55 (song). beaches in company with devil's-aprons, bladder-weeds, dead horse-shoes, . O. W. Holmes, Autocrat, vii. 7. To cover with a watery or thin coat of col- or; tint lightly, thinly, or evenly, in water- color, with a pigment so mixed as to be very fluid and rapidly and smoothly applied.-8. To overlay with a thin coat or deposit of metal: as, to wash copper or bra with gold. mieson. [Scotch.] -2. A cushion or pad of straw, etc., worn on the head in order to soften the pre ure of a load. Withals . [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] -31. A torch. wase2t, n. An obsolete form of woose . waselt, v. i. [ME., wase2 , later woose .] To bemire one's self; sink in the mire. They we hen hym and wyped hym and wonden hym in cloutes. Piers Plowman (B), ii. 220. Hir foreheed shoon as bright as any day, So was it wa hen whan she leet hir werk. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 125. The maiden her silf wosh his visage and his nekke, and dried it full softely with a towaile, and than after to the tother twey kynges. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 225. IMG:content-2088.png:[blocks in formation] Those who were cunning in "the Art of making Black Dogs, which are Shillings, or other pieces of Money made only of Pewter, double Wash'd ." J. Ashton , Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, II. 225. 9. In mining , metal . , etc., to separate from the earthy and lighter matters by the action of water: as, to wash gold; to wash ores. Washing is a common expre ion used in the most general way, as nearly an equivalent for ore-dre ing, or the separation of ore from the gangue with which it is generally mixed. The term washing is, however, more especially used to designate the separation of gold from the detrital form a- tion in which it so frequently occurs. The same term is also commonly employed to designate the proce of sep- a rating coal from various impurities which frequently occur intermingled with it, such as shale, pyrites, argilla- ceo us iron ore, gypsum, etc. The machines by which this is done are called coal - washers , as machines for washing gold are called gold - washers . Washing is also the term in general use for designating the operation of cleansing the ore when, as is frequently the case, it comes from the mine mixed with clay or dirt (material which cannot properly be called gangue ). This is a coarse operation, which is sometimes a nece ary preliminary to the opera- tions of sizing and dre ing, or concentrating, as some- times called. To wash one's hands of. See hand . II. in trans. 1. To perform the act of ablu- tion on one's own person. And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no. Shak . , Cor., i. 9. 69. I keep his house; and I wash , wring, brew, bake, scour, dre meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself. Shak., M. W. of W., i. 4. 101. 3. To stand the operation of washing without being destroyed, spoiled, or injured: said both of fabrics and of dyes: as, a dre that will not wash ; colors that do not wash well. I had no idea your mou eline-de-laine would have washed so well. Why, it looks just out of the shop. 4. Hence, to stand being put to the proof; stand the test: prove genuine, reliable, trust- worthy, capable, or fit, when submitted to trial. [Colloq.] He's got pluck somewhere in him. That's the only thing after all that 'll wash , ain't it? What kind of gra is best on a hill that washes ? Sci. Amer., N. S., LVII. 203. Young Ladies who notoriously Wash and Paint, though they have naturally good Complexions. Etherege, Man of Mode, ii. 1. 7. To make a swish, swash, or swirl of the wa- ter: as, the shad are washing . See shad - wash . wash (wosh), n . [ wash , v .] 1. The act or op- eration of cleansing by the application of wa- ter; a cleansing with water or other liquid: as, to give one's face a wash . Though she may have done a hard day's wash , there's not a child ill within the street but Alice goes to offer to sit up. Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, 1. A tuband a clothes-horse at the other end of the kitchen indicated an intermittent wash of small things also going George Eliot, Middle march, iii. 24. 2. Articles in the course of being cleansed by washing, or the quantity of clothes or other articles washed on one occasion. L. M. Alcott, Hospital Sketches, etc., p. 23. 3. The flow or sweep of a body of water; the onward rush of water as its billows break upon the shore; the dash or break of waves upon a shore. Katie walks By the long wash of Austral asian seas. Tennyson, The Brook. 4. The rough or broken water left behind by a ve el as it moves along: as, the wash of the steamer nearly filled the boat.-5. The licking or lapping noise made by rippling water as it comes in contact with a boat, a pier, the strand, or the like; the swish-swash of water disturbed as by wind or by ebb or flow. The water ebbs away with a sulky wash in the hollow R. D. Black more , Maid of Sker, iii. 8. Waste liquor containing the refuse of food, collected from the cleansed dishes, etc., of a kitchen, such as is often given to pigs; swill or swillings. The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar... Swills your warm blood like wash . Shak ., Rich. III., v. 2. 9. Wrinkles like troughs, where swine-deformity swills The tears of perjury, that lie there like wash Fallen from the slimy and dishonest eye. wash (6) That which is moved by the force of rain; a deposit formed by rain. Portions of the drift and of the overlying head or rain Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., XLIV. 116. wash. Red wash. (a) A lotion composed of corrosive sublimate, red sulphid of mercury, and creosote, in water. (b) Bates's camphorated water, made by adding copper sulphate, Armenian bole, and camphor to boiling water, and then straining.- Tooth-wash, a liquid dentifrice. - White wash, Goulard's lotion; lead-water. - Yellow wash, a lotion prepared by di olving 30 grains of corrosive sublimate in one pint of lime-water. washt (wosh), a. [ IMG:content-2089.png:[blocks in formation] ing. E. H. Knight.