Swash

Definition:

  • (v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
  • (v. t.) Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
  • (v. i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
  • (v. i.) To fall violently or noisily.
  • (v. i.) To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
  • (n.) Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
  • (n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
  • (n.) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
  • (n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
  • (n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

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