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The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.

That which is washed off. [R.] Dwight.

Doctrine of absolute decrees. Ash.

e. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew.

ner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

In a cocked or turned up fashion.

The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. Shak.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

In eager desire; eager; astir. All agog to dash through thick and thin. Cowper.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.

According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.

On land; to the land; ashore. "Cast aland." Sir P. Sidney.

Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.

rains or irrigation. The basis of these salts is mainly soda with a smaller amount of potash, and usually a little lime and magnesia. Two main classes of alkali are commonly distinguished: black alkali, which may be any alkaline carbonate, but which practically consists of sodium carbonate (sal soda), which is highly…

The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.