Washed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wash \Wash\ (w[o^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Washed}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Washing}.] [OE. waschen, AS. wascan; akin to D.
     wasschen, G. waschen, OHG. wascan, Icel. & Sw. vaska, Dan.
     vaske, and perhaps to E. water. [root]150.]
     1. To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to
        apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of


        cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water;
        as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash
        sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the
        bark of trees.
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              When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . .
              he took water and washed his hands before the
              multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of
              this just person.                     --Matt. xxvii.
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     2. To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and
        moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves
        wash the shore.
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              Fresh-blown roses washed with dew.    --Milton.
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              [The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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     3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as,
        heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
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     4. To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action
        of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often
        with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the
        hands.
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              Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins.
                                                    --Acts xxii.
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              The tide will wash you off.           --Shak.
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     5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint
        lightly and thinly.
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     6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed
        with silver.
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     7. To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding
        substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese
        oxide.
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     8. To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a
        liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing
        soluble constituents.
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     {To wash gold}, etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed
        ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other
        metal, or metallic ore, through their higher density.
  
     {To wash the hands of}. See under {Hand}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Washed \Washed\, a. (Zool.)
     Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different
     color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  washed
       adj 1: clean by virtue of having been washed in water [syn: {water-washed}]
       2: wet as from washing; sometimes used in combination;
          "rain-washed"