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Free from the lash or scourge of satire or sarcasm. lăsh (2), s. [Etym. doubtful.] An eyelash (q. v.). lash, *lasch-yn, v. t. & i. [LASH, 8.] A. Transitive: I. Literally : 1. To strike or flog with anything pliant and tough, as a whip; to whip; to flog; to drive with a whip. "These, with his bow unbent, he lashed along." Pope: Homer's Iliad, x. 584. 2. To beat or dash against. "The lightning flies, the thunder roars, And big waves lash the frighted shores." Prior: Lady's Looking-Gla . 3. To throw or dash out suddenly or with a jerk. "The club hung round his ears, and battered brows: He falls; and lashing up his heels, his rider throws." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphoses xii. 4. To fasten or bind with a rope or cord; to secure or tie with a cord or string. *5. To throw out, to scatter. II. Fig .: To satirize; to a ail fiercely with satire. "Juvenal was wholly employed in lashing vices."Dryden: Juvenal . (Dedication.) B. Intransitive: I. Lit.: To use a whip; to flog. II. Figuratively: 1. To satirize; to make use of satire or sarcasm. 2. To break out; to launch out into extravagance. To lash out: 1. To become extravagant. 2. To kick out, as a horse. 3. To utter wildly. "He lasheth out scripture in bedelem." -Sir T. More: Works, p. 287. *lash, a . [Prob. from Lat. lax us =loose.] Soft and watery, but without flavor. ( Forby : Vocab.of East Anglia .)