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Keeler :: Keeler (n.) A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc..

Denudation :: Denudation (n.) The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water..

Abluent :: Abluent (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.

Lavement :: Lavement (n.) A washing or bathing; also, a clyster..

Lavatory :: Lavatory (a.) Washing, or cleansing by washing..

Rinse :: Rinse (v. t.) To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.

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.

Edulcorate :: Edulcorate (v. t.) To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify..

Whiting :: Whiting (n.) Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker..

Dishcloth :: Dishcloth (n.) A cloth used for washing dishes.

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

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..

Dilluing :: Dilluing (n.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.

Elutriate :: Elutriate (v. t.) To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing..

Washing :: Washing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Was.

Lixiviate :: Lixiviate (v. t.) 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..

Creaze :: Creaze (n.) The tin ore which collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle.

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..

Causally :: Causally (n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing..

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