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The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.

The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.

A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.

A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.

A tub in which clothes are washed.

Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton.

See under Brash.

The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair. Addison.

One who whitewashes.

Any weak, thin drink.

or substance; -- originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless. A weak wishy-washy man who had hardly any mind of his own. A. Trollope.

Same as Woadwaxen.

Abashed; confounded; discomfited. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Astonished; abashed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

on. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [Obs.] Ash.

Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. -- n. (Med.)