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To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast. [Obs.] Barrow.

Excess; exaggeration. [Obs.]

A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.

A small pool of standing water; a puddle. Bacon. "These shallow plashes." Barrow.

A small pond or pool; a puddle.

The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.

A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed. [Obs.] Carew.

Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth.

A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.

To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] King.

bensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies; -- so called because it grows in "slashes."

Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture. A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves. Sir W. Scott.

A machine for applying size to warp yarns.

Wet and dirty; slushy. [Prov. Eng.]

To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard.

One who, or that which, splashes.

Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] The taplash of strong ale and wine. Taylor (1630).

To loose, as that which is lashed or tied down.