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One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.

Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.

Not washed. [Archaic] "To eat with unwashen hands." Matt. xv. 20.

Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair. Addison.

One who whitewashes.

Any weak, thin drink.

or substance; -- originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless. A weak wishy-washy man who had hardly any mind of his own. A. Trollope.

Same as Woadwaxen.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. -- n. (Med.)

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.

wner 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.

, 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.

Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

tizens of the United States. The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism. Washington.

- The anchor is atrip, or aweigh, when it is lifted out of the ground. -- The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. -- At anchor, anchored. -- To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to th…

hies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.