wash

• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
• make moist
• the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
• wash or flow against
• cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
• the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
• cleanse (one´s body) with soap and water
• clean with some chemical process
• a thin coat of water-base paint
• the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
• a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
• any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
• move by or as if by water
• be capable of being washed
• admit to testing or proof
• separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
• apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
• remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
• form by erosion
• to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
• To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water
• To cover with water or any liquid
• To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion
• To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water
• To cover with a thin or watery coat of color
• To overlay with a thin coat of metal
• To perform the act of ablution
• To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water
• To bear without injury the operation of being washed
• To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea
• The act of washing
• A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry
• Substances collected and deposited by the action of water
• Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs
• The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted
• A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation
• That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface
• A liquid cosmetic for the complexion
• A liquid dentifrice
• A liquid preparation for the hair
• A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application
• A thin coat of color, esp. water color
• A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation
• The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water
• The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer´s screw or paddles, etc
• The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave
• Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters
• Washy
• Capable of being washed without injury
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Syrian Arab Republic in Halab

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