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Extended flourish, in printing
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swash
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Word definitions for swash in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "the fall of a heavy body or blow," probably imitative. It also meant "pig-wash, filth, wet refuse" (1520s) and may have been imitative of the sound of water dashing against solid objects. The meaning "a body of splashing water" is first found 1670s; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swash \Swash\, n. Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water. 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. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. ...
Usage examples of swash.
I went into the barrack room to put my things in my pack, and to swash my scabbard around in its water some more.
He shaved around his face in a circular swash, leaving several patches of beard.
His hair was combed on the extreme right side, a great swash of it lying across the skull and parallel to his forehead.
Mauve sat down and ran his left hand along the great swash of hair, smoothing the grain of it on his head again and again.
Once he rammed his hand against the swash of hair, left it standing in a bush, and threw a quick look of disapproval at Vincent.
Mauve was setting up a big canvas excitedly, the swash of hair across his forehead falling into his eyes.
Another and another follows with a swash and a suck and a savage bubbling of relieved pressures.
Heard the sloppings and smackings, the swash of wet mouths, bedsprings sinking in.
At last, however, the measured swash of the water against the side of the vessel and the slight rise and fall had lulled me into a sleep, from which I was suddenly aroused by the flashing of a light in my eyes.
Anyway, the water gurgled and swashed so loudly among those trees as to cover all the noises of our disembarking.
So I borrowed a washtub from one of the barrack soldiers, and filled it with water, and swashed the scabbard around in it until I could work the sword loose.
At a point near the middle of the river a great mass of drift-logs and sand had long ago formed a barrier which split the stream so that one current came heavily shoreward on the side next the town and swashed with its muddy foam, making a swirl and eddy just below where Beverley stood.
The cabin floor had been torn up to get at the ballast, and rusty bilge-water swashed and splashed.
Stubb at this instant, as a swashing sea heaved up under his own little craft so that its gunwale violently jammed his hand, as he was passing a lashing.
What more they might have said I know not, for my father picked up the great roller wherewith he smoothed the leather, and dashing at them he brought it down on the side of one of their heads with such a swashing blow, that had it not been for his stiff hat the man would never have uttered oath again.