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The quality of being polished.

Abounding or covered with rushes.

Exiled voluntarily.

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 shelter to protect from snow, esp. a long roof over an exposed part of a railroad.

Wearing spatterdashes. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Not accomplished or performed; unfinished; also, deficient in accomplishment; unrefined.

Not blemished; pure; spotless; as, an unblemished reputation or life. Addison.

Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.

Not parted or divided, as the hair. [Obs.] Spenser.

Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.

Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.

Same as Wash sale.

The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.

According to wish; conformably to desire. [Obs.] Chapman.

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

sness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.

Astonished; abashed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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