Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   4. 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.

   5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint
      lightly and thinly.

   6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed
      with silver.

   {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 superior gravity.

   {To wash the hands of}. See under {Hand}.