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The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. Washing bear (Zoöl.), the raccoon. -- Washing bottle (Chem.), a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing into one of the tubes a stream of water issuing from the other may be directed upon anything to be washed or rinsed, as a precipitate…

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell.

Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak.

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.

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.

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

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.

ced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff. Shak.

The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide, proposed by I. Lowthian Bell of England about 1875.

inguished by qualities which excite admiration; splended; shining; as, brilliant talents. Washington was more solicitous to avoid fatal mistakes than to perform brilliant exploits. Fisher Ames.

A washing.

a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.

The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse.

The rank, post, or commission of a captain. Washington. Captaincy general, the office, power, teritory, or jurisdiction of a captain general; as, the captaincy general of La Habana (Cuba and its islands).