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300 words match “WASH”

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…

KRUPP PROCESS n.

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.

LAUNDER n. 2 definitions

A washerwoman. [Obs.]

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

A laundering; a washing.

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

LAVATORY a. 5 definitions

Washing, or cleansing by washing.

A wash or lotion. [Obs.]

LAVE v. 2 definitions

To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise. His feet the foremost breakers lave. Byron.

A washing or bathing; also, a clyster.

LAVER n. 5 definitions

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.

The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

rush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied. [Colloq.] A lick of court white wash. Gray.

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.