Swash definition
To strike, move, or wash with a splashing sound.
verb
To splash a liquid against.
verb
To dash, strike, wash, etc. with a splashing sound; splash.
verb
To splash (a liquid).
verb
To swagger.
verb
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A splash of water or other liquid hitting a solid surface.
noun
The sound of such a splash.
noun
A narrow channel through which tides flow.
noun
A bar over which waves wash freely.
noun
Swagger or bluster.
noun
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A swaggering or blustering person.
noun
(archaic) To swagger or bluster.
verb
To splash (a liquid), as in a container.
verb
A body of swift, dashing water; specif., a channel cutting through or behind a sandbank.
noun
A bar washed over by the sea.
noun
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The splashing of water or the sound of this.
noun
(archaic) A swaggering or blustering person.
noun
(typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
noun
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
noun
(intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
verb
(intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
verb
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Origin of swash
- Probably imitative
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition