Definition of washing

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Washing (n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.

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Swashway :: Swashing (a.) Resounding; crushing.
Lavement :: Lavement (n.) A washing or bathing; also, a clyster..
Wash :: Wash (n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once..
Rinse :: Rinse (v. t.) To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
Mop :: Mop (n.) An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle..
Tailing :: Tailing (n.) 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..
Splenalgia :: Spleget (n.) A cloth dipped in a liquid for washing a sore.
Salination :: Salination (n.) The act of washing with salt water.
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker..
Lotion :: Lotion (n.) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair..
Autotype :: Autotype (n.) A photographic picture produced 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.
Washout :: Washout (n.) 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..
Wince :: Wince (n.) A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will..
Mount :: Mount (v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry..
Dirt :: Dirt (n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing..
Mine :: Mine (v. i.) Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine..
Abluent :: Abluent (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
Abdest :: Abdest (n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.
Capital :: Capital (n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities..
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them..
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