Crossword clues for washed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wash \Wash\ (w[o^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Washed; p. pr. & vb. n. Washing.] [OE. waschen, AS. wascan; akin to D. wasschen, G. waschen, OHG. wascan, Icel. & Sw. vaska, Dan. vaske, and perhaps to E. water. [root]150.]
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To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person.
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To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
Fresh-blown roses washed with dew.
--Milton.[The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist.
--Longfellow. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
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To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins.
--Acts xxii. 16.The tide will wash you off.
--Shak. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
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To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents.
To wash gold, etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their higher density.
To wash the hands of. See under Hand.
Washed \Washed\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: wash)
WordNet
adj. clean by virtue of having been washed in water [syn: water-washed]
wet as from washing; sometimes used in combination; "rain-washed"
Usage examples of "washed".
Again, if the ore is washed with water before treating with cyanide on the large scale, then the assay should be made of the acidity of the ore after a similar washing.
The slubbing or sliver may be scoured, bleached, rinsed, dyed, washed, soaped, or otherwise treated without removing it from the machine, which is a most decided advantage.
Some scourers use the same liquor, but it is better to use fresh liquors, after which it is washed in the same machine with water two or three times.
In this method it is important that the solution of the gas be freshly made, otherwise it is liable to contain but little sulphurous acid, and plenty of sulphuric acid which has no bleaching properties, but, on the other hand, is liable to lead to damage of the goods if it be not washed out afterwards.
Into this bath the goods are entered and are then exposed to the air as before, after which they may be passed through a weak bath of sulphurous acid, being next well washed in water and dried.
When the dye-bath is exhausted the goods are lifted, washed and dried.
Or if the dye-works were on the banks of a running stream of clean water the dyed goods were simply hung in the stream to be washed in a very effectual manner.
First those where the pieces are dealt with in the form of ropes or in a twisted form, and second those where the pieces are washed while opened out full width.
These test skeins or pieces ought to be well washed in hot water before use, so that they are clean and free from any size or grease.
After being treated with the acids the swatches should be well washed with water, when the original colour may be wholly or partially restored.
On the other hand, these curtains are rarely washed, and so the colour need not be quite fast to washing.
The filters are washed with hot water, and if the filtrates are wanted flasks are placed beneath, if not, the solution is drained off down the sink.
When the precipitation has been completed, the apparatus should always be washed out.
The precipitate must then be filtered off, and washed with distilled water.
There may be formed a white precipitate of barium carbonate, which if filtered off, washed and treated with acid, will dissolve with effervescence.