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wascan, Icel. & Sw. vaska, Dan. vaske, and perhaps to E. water. sq. 1. To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash

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wascan, Icel. & Sw. vaska, Dan. vaske, and perhaps to E. water. sq. 1. To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. Matt. xxvii. 24. 2. To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore. Fresh-blown roses washed with dew. Milton. washed with a cold, gray mist. Longfellow. 3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. 4. To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands. Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins. Acts xxii. 16. The tide will wash you off. Shak. 5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly. 6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. To wash gold, etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their superior gravity. -- To wash the hands of. See under Hand.

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    1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
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    brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
  • STEEPLE
    A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
  • EXSICCATE
    To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.
  • STEEPLY
    In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
  • STEEP-DOWN
    Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
  • DROWN
    To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
  • SHOWER
    1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
  • INUNDATE
    pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. 1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. 2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country
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    Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked. Dries his feathers saturate with dew. Cowper. The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of martyrs. Longfellow.
  • SHOWERY
    1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
  • DRENCHER
    1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench.
  • STEEPLE-CROWNED
    1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.
  • STEEPEN
    To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller.
  • STEEPER
    A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
  • DRENCH
    1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."
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    1. Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof. 2. Height; loftiness. Chapman.
  • STEEPINESS
    Steepness. Howell.
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    Rainless; freo from showers.
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    Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
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    To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.
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    To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution.
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    A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
  • UNDERSATURATED
    Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.
  • HORSE-DRENCH
    1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred.

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