Sekirov Dictionary

swash

UK /swɒʃ/US /swɑʃ/

noun 12
verb 7
adjective 2
forms 5

noun12

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The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- The first process occurs when swash mixes air and sand, trapping air bubbles just below the beach surface. — 2011
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A wet splashing sound.
- As a first warning the boiling liquid lifts the cover and washes over it with a noisy swash and clatter. — 1906
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A swishing noise.
- The swash of the whirling blades reminds me vaguely of the noise conifers make. — 2003
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A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- Yet Svvash-Letters, […] ought to have the Upper Sholder of that Svvash Sculped dovvn straight, viz. to a Right Angle, or Square vvith the Face; […] — 1683
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A smooth stroke; a swish.
- Dip in and out quickly and with a swash three or four times. This serves to wash off the dust that has settled while the fruit is on the trays. — 1895
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A streak or patch.
- On impulse he took Sunset through Brentwood and saw Cape Jessamines flaring pink above green lawns and here and there a yellow swash of jonquils. — 1972
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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.
- According to what you say about the shells, there ought to be a thousand flamingos feeding in this very swash at this instant. — 1924
An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
(no longer used) A blustering noise.
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(no longer used) swaggering behaviour.
- He silently cursed the recently arrived Jessup, who was full of more swash than sense . — 1993
(no longer used) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
(no longer used) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.

verb7

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To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties! — 1851
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To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
- He swashed out of the room, and presently we heard his angry voice berating his bearer. — 1910
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To swirl through liquid; to swish.
- The parts are swashed in the solution until they are clean and are then rinsed in cold running water. — 1917
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To wade forcefully through liquid.
- Kala Nag swashed out of the water, blew his trunk clear, and began another climb; but this time he was not alone, and he had not to make his path. — 1894
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To fall violently or noisily.
- The Archbyshop of Yorke[…]swasht him down, meaning to thrust himselfe in betwixt the Legate, and the Archbyshop of Canterbury. — 1577
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To swipe.
- '[…] ye ill-farren, useless bowdikite!' said she, as she swashed the dishclout about my lugs, — 1828
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To streak, to color in a swash.
- As the valleys darkened, the caps of the hills were swashed in variant hues. — 2003

adjective2

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bold; dramatic.
- Very swash in camelly cashmere belted over shirt-tunic and pants in a neat, tiny print of cinnamon–navy–wine–beige crêpe de Chine — 1970
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Having pronounced swashes.
- The French compositor took the greek capitals for latin ones and sought out his swashest type to set the handwritten letters, — 1936

forms

swashed · swashing · swashes · swasher · swashest

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