An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. Moxon. Swash plate (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.
Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.
To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
To fall violently or noisily. [Obs.] Holinshed.
To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. [Obs.]
A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. [Obs.]
A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
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