'Swash' definitions:
Definition of 'swash'
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Definition of 'Swash'
From: GCIDE
- Swash \Swash\, n.
- 1. Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. A swaggering fellow; a swasher. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Swash'
From: GCIDE
- Swash \Swash\, n. [Cf. Swash, v. i., Squash, v. t.] (Arch.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. --Moxon. [1913 Webster]
- Swash plate (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Swash'
From: GCIDE
- Swash \Swash\, a. [Cf. Swash, v. i., Squash, v. t.] Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [Prov. Eng.] --Pegge. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Swash'
From: GCIDE
- Swash \Swash\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swashing.] [Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw. svasska to splash, and, for sense 3, Sw. svassa to bully, to rodomontade.]
- 1. To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fall violently or noisily. [Obs.] --Holinshed. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'swash'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aqueduct,
- arroyo,
- asperge,
- babble,
- bed,
- bedew,
- bespatter,
- besprinkle,
- bounce,
- brave show,
- bubble,
- burble,
- canal,
- creek bed,
- culvert,
- dabble,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dash,
- dew,
- donga,
- douche,
- douse,
- dry bed,
- flume,
- foam,
- froth,
- guggle,
- gulch,
- gully,
- gullyhole,
- gurgle,
- headrace,
- hose,
- hose down,
- humect,
- humectate,
- humidify,
- irrigate,
- irrigation ditch,
- lap,
- lapping,
- miles gloriosus,
- moisten,
- nullah,
- paddle,
- peacock,
- peacockery,
- peacockishness,
- plash,
- prance,
- purl,
- race,
- ripple,
- river bed,
- riverway,
- runnel,
- shower,
- slobber,
- slop,
- slosh,
- sluice,
- sparge,
- spatter,
- spillbox,
- spillway,
- spindrift,
- splash,
- splatter,
- splosh,
- splurge,
- sponge,
- spray,
- sprinkle,
- spume,
- spurtle,
- stalk,
- stream bed,
- streamway,
- strut,
- strutter,
- strutting,
- swagger,
- swaggerer,
- swaggering,
- swank,
- swanker,
- swash channel,
- swashbuckle,
- swashbuckler,
- swashbucklering,
- swashbucklery,
- swashbuckling,
- swasher,
- swish,
- syringe,
- tailrace,
- trill,
- wadi,
- wash,
- washing,
- water,
- water carrier,
- water channel,
- water furrow,
- water gap,
- water gate,
- watercourse,
- waterway,
- waterworks,
- wet,
- wet down