swash
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.Examples: "It is not the direct battering that breaks the dyke, but overtopping, when the flow of water sweeps away the inland face, so swash length is a vital thing to accommodate, and to do that you must make an estimate of the highest possible tides."; "The first process occurs when swash mixes air and sand, trapping air bubbles just below the beach surface."; "The swash is made up of the remnants of a breaking wave."countableuncountable
2. (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.Examples: "Yet Svvaſh-Letters, […] ought to have the Upper Sholder of that Svvaſh Sculped dovvn ſtraight, viz. to a Right Angle, or Square vvith the Face; […]"; "There is a group of decorative swash initials, too."; "so swash versions of the capitals were produced as alternatives."countableuncountable
3. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.Examples: "And it setteth the soul at liberty, and maketh her free to follow the will of God and doth to the soul even as health doth unto the body; after that a man is pined and wasted away with a long soaking disease, the legs cannot bear him, he cannot lift up his hands to help himself, his taste is corrupt, sugar is bitter in his mouth, his stomach abhorreth [meat.] longing after slibbersause and swash, at which a whole stomach is ready to cast his gorge."countableobsoleteuncountable
4. (obsolete) A blustering noise.countableobsoleteuncountable
5. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.Examples: "Some of you are making a great swash in life and after awhile will die, leaving your families beggars, and will expect us ministers of the Gospel to come and lie about your excellencies; but we will not do it."; "He silently cursed the recently arrived Jessup, who was full of more swash than sense ."; "Not short on self-assurance, Gulbadeen opened the batting (and bowled at the death) with more swash than buckle."countableobsoleteuncountable
6. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).Examples: "He swashed out of the room, and presently we heard his angry voice berating his bearer."; "He swashed about (cautioned though he was to maintain silence concerning his past theatrical relationships) in such a self-confident manner that he was like to convince every one of his identity by mere matter of circumstantial evidence."; "The men he'd swashed were coming at him, with determination if no great skill."ambitransitive
2. (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.Examples: "How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!"; "There was an inch or two of water on the floor in our room that continually swashed, swashed from side to side, with the rolling of the ship."; "Standing at the rail of his caravel on a sultry Caribbean evening as the water jogged and swashed the boat, he smelled the perfume of soil and flowers wafting on a land breeze from the island of Cuba."ambitransitive
3. (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.Examples: "The parts are swashed in the solution until they are clean and are then rinsed in cold running water."; "I followed one set to the laundrey, where for two hours the samples were swashed and soaked, and swashed again, with strong laundry soap."; "His gray and black hair on his head swashed in the dirty water around what used to be his face."ambitransitive
4. (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.Examples: "Kala Nag swashed out of the water, blew his trunk clear, and began another climb; but this time he was not alone, and he had not to make his path."; "While Col-d'Argent sank collapsed upon the Bridge, and the horse charged over him, and again charged, and beat and were beaten three several times, Anhalt-Dessau, impatient of such fiddling hither and thither, swashed into the stream itself with his Prussian Foot; swashed through it, waist-deep or breast-deep, and might have settled the matter had not his cartridges got wetted."; "We clambered over the giant ahuehuete like Lilliputians over the body of a Gulliver, and swashed through the slimy flood."intransitive
5. (ambitransitive) To swipe.Examples: "'[…] ye ill-farren, useless bowdikite!' said she, as she swashed the dishclout about my lugs,"; "It was a fire sword That I swashed about the world, O how I swashed The great fire sword that lit the sky"; "Steady rhythms swash, swash, on my chest Yes, yes."ambitransitive
6. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.Examples: "The Archbyshop of Yorke[…]swasht him down, meaning to thrust himselfe in betwixt the Legate, and the Archbyshop of Canterbury."intransitive
adj (English)
1. (typography) Having pronounced swashes.Examples: "The French compositor took the greek capitals for latin ones and sought out his swashest type to set the handwritten letters,"; "The failing to avoid at all costs when using this type of capital is that of making them too swash."; "A couple of the swashest Italic capitals have gone over the top"
Definition source: Wiktionary