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A cloth used for washing dishes.

To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify. [R.]

hich is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.

lder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling alliances." Washington. The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. Locke. Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. Froude.

Washington; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.

t not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.

d; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington. I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak.

Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially:

d adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.

r region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing. -- Gold end, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry. -- Gold-end man. (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry. (b) A goldsmith's apprentice. (c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man." B. Jonson.…

- Hard water, water, which contains lime or some mineral substance rendering it unfit for washing. See Hardness, 3.- Hard wood, wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak, ash, box, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar, hemlock, etc.- In hard condition, in excellent condition for racing; having firm musc…

dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.

The hub of a wheel. See Hub. Washington.

tation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation. Washington. Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the genus Mimosa (M. sensitiva). -- To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humilitation; -- a…

The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming.

A jig for washing ore. Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.

bon. True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion. Washington.

colors which do not fade or tarnish by exposure. -- Indelible ink, an ink obliterated by washing; esp., a solution of silver nitrate.