Swash

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.

II. Swash ·vi To fall violently or noisily.

III. Swash ·noun A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

IV. Swash ·vt Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.

V. Swash ·noun A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.

VI. Swash ·vt An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

VII. Swash ·noun Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.

VIII. Swash ·vi To Bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

IX. Swash ·vi To dash or flow noisily, as water; to Splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.

X. Swash ·noun 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.

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