Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wash \Wash\, n.
   1. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or
      dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes,
      washed at once.

   2. A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river,
      or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the
      shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a
      bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. ``The
      Wash of Edmonton so gay.'' --Cowper.

            These Lincoln washes have devoured them. --Shak.

   3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water;
      as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.

            The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads,
            where rain water hath a long time settled.
                                                  --Mortimer.

   4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from
      washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food
      for pigs. --Shak.

   5. (Distilling)
      (a) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
      (b) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings,
          used in the West Indies for distillation. --B.
          Edwards.

   6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared,
      tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically:
      (a) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
      (b) A liquid dentifrice.
      (c) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
      (d) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external
          application; a lotion.
      (e) (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
      (j) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or
          preservation.

   7. (Naut.)
      (a) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the
          water.
      (b) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the
          action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles,
          etc.

   8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a
      wave; also, the sound of it.

   9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.]

   {Wash ball}, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands
      or face. --Swift.

   {Wash barrel} (Fisheries), a barrel nearly full of split
      mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt
      water in order to soak the blood from the fish before
      salting.

   {Wash bottle}. (Chem.)
      (a) A bottle partially filled with some liquid through
          which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying
          them, especially by removing soluble constituents.
      (b) A washing bottle. See under {Washing}.

   {Wash gilding}. See {Water gilding}.

   {Wash leather}, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in
      imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting,
      cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff,
      leather for soldiers' belts.