- (n.) Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
- (n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
- (v.i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
- (n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
- (v.i.) To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
- (v.t.) Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
- (v.t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
- (n.) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
- (n.) 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.
- (v.i.) To fall violently or noisily.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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