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such a ditch. On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect Hills. Washington.

A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream…

l or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc.

r relations to their employers. [U. S.] -- Knights of Pythias, a secret order, founded in Washington, d.C., in 1864, for social and charitable purposes. -- Knights of the Round Table, knights belonging to an order which, according to the legendary accounts, was instituted by the mythical King Arthur. They derived thei…

A process practiced by Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace. Called also the Bell-Krupp process.

one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.

To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue. I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag. Tennyson.

The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.

A laundering; a washing.

A washing or cleansing. [Obs. or R.]

Washing, or cleansing by washing.

A washing or bathing; also, a clyster.

A vessel for washing; a large basin.

lix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. "Lengthy periods." Washington. "Some lengthy additions." Byron. "These would be details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthy explanations." Trench.

a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington.

To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.

Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.

reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74º or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich.

A vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.

A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.