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swash

[swosh, swawsh]

–verb (used without object)

1.	to splash, as things in water, or as water does: Waves were swashing against the piers.

2.	to dash around, as things in violent motion.

3.	to swagger.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to dash or cast violently, esp. to dash (water or other liquid) around, down, etc.

–noun

5.	the surging or dashing, sometimes violent, of water, waves, etc.

6.	the sound made by such dashing: the thunderous swash of the waves.

7.	the ground over which water washes.

8.	Chiefly Southeastern U.S. a channel of water through or behind a sandbank.

9.	Printing. an extending ornamental flourish, as on letters of certain fonts of italic or cursive type.

–adjective

10.	Printing. noting or pertaining to a character having a swash: a swash letter.

Origin:
1520–30; imit.

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swash (swŏsh, swôsh)

1. A splash of water or other liquid hitting a solid surface.
2. The sound of such a splash.
3. A narrow channel through which tides flow.
4. A bar over which waves wash freely.
5. Swagger or bluster.
6. A swaggering or blustering person.
1. A narrow channel through which tides flow.
2. A bar over which waves wash freely.
3. Swagger or bluster.
4. A swaggering or blustering person.
See uprush.
1. Swagger or bluster.
2. A swaggering or blustering person.

v. swashed, swash·ing, swash·es

v. intr.

To strike, move, or wash with a splashing sound.
To swagger.

v. tr.

To splash (a liquid).
To splash a liquid against.

[Probably imitative.]

up·rush (ŭp'rŭsh')

n. The rush of water from a breaking wave onto a beach. Also called swash.

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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.

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.

Swash

Swash\, a. [Cf. Swash, v. i., Squash, v. t.] Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [Prov. Eng.] --Pegge.

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.

2. To fall violently or noisily. [Obs.] --Holinshed.

3. To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

Swash

Swash\, n. 1. Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.

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.

3. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. [Obs.]

4. A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. [Obs.]

5. A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

swash

1538, "the fall of a heavy body or blow," possibly from wash with an intensifying s-. It also meant "pig-wash, filth, wet refuse" (1528) and may have been imitative of the sound of water dashing against solid objects. The meaning "a body of splashing water" is first found 1671; that of "a dashing or splashing" 1847.

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