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To dash; to swash.

To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.

The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails. Pryce.

To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge. Tarry all night, and wash your feet. Gen. xix. 2.

he flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.

e is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution. Washington.

look here; this is the thankful glass That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well That washes what it shows. Herbert.

Thoroughly. [Obs.] Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.

the thumb. Mortimer. -- Thumb blue, indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by washerwomen to blue linen, and the like. -- Thumb latch, a door latch having a lever formed to be pressed by the thumb. -- Thumb mark. (a) The mark left by the impression of a thumb, as on the leaves of a book. Longfellow. (b) T…

-- Tin foil, tin reduced to a thin leaf. -- Tin frame (Mining), a kind of buddle used in washing tin ore. -- Tin liquor, Tin mordant (Dyeing), stannous chloride, used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing. -- Tin penny, a customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [O…

A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. Pryce.

To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose. Smart.

A trough for washing ores. Knight.

The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.

e United States, under every suffering and discouragement, was little short of a miracle. Washington.

A vessel for water for washing the hands; also, one to hold wine or water.

To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel. Raymond.

A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.

id, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine. [Obs.] In vain it is to wash a goblet, if you mean to put it nothing but the dead lees and vap of wine. Jer. Taylor.

A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.