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A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.

A trough for washing ore.

To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. [Spelt also swob.]

To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.

The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails. Pryce.

e is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution. Washington.

-- Tin foil, tin reduced to a thin leaf. -- Tin frame (Mining), a kind of buddle used in washing tin ore. -- Tin liquor, Tin mordant (Dyeing), stannous chloride, used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing. -- Tin penny, a customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [O…

A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. Pryce.

A trough for washing ores. Knight.

The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.

e United States, under every suffering and discouragement, was little short of a miracle. Washington.

A vessel for water for washing the hands; also, one to hold wine or water.

A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.

To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands. Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins. Acts xxii. 16. The tide will wash you off. Shak.

A sale made in washing. See Washing, n., 3, above.

A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.

A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.

An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.

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 piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.