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Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell.

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.

A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.

A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.

esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

n which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse. "In merry wassail he . . . peals his loud song." Sir W. Scott. The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail. Shak. The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail. Prescott.

One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler. The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

n the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.

Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

evastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity. Sir W. Scott.

A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

See Washboard, 3.

A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.

Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.