| wash | 1. To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc, or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees. "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . He took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person." (Matt. Xxvii. 24) 2. To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore. "Fresh blown roses washed with dew." (Milton) "[The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist." (Longfellow) 3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. 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 colour; 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 Hand. Origin: OE. Waschen, AS. Wascan; akin to D. Wasschen, G. Waschen, OHG. Wascan, Icel. & Sw. Vaska, Dan. Vaske, and perhaps to E. Water. 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." "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. 5. The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted. A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. 6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc, upon the surface. Specifically: A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. A liquid dentifrice. A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash. A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion. A thin coat of colour, especially. Water colour. A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation. 7. The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water. 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. Wash ball, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands or face. <chemistry> Wash barrel A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents. A washing bottle. See 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wash-bottle | A bottle with a tube passing to the bottom, through which gases are forced into water to purify them, a stoppered bottle with two tubes, one ending above and the other below a fluid, so that air blowing through the short tube forces liquid in a small stream from the free end of the long one; used for washing chemical apparatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washdish | 1. A washbowl. 2. <zoology> Same as Washerwoman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washed | <ornithology, zoology> Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different colour; said of the colours of certain birds and insects. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washed field technique | The cutting of cavity preparations in teeth utilizing a constant irrigant which is immediately removed from the mouth by means of a vacuum device. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washed sulfur | Sublimed sulfur macerated in diluted ammonia water to remove the free acid; same therapeutic uses as sublimed sulfur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washer | 1. One who, or that which, washes. 2. A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc. 3. A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening. 4. <zoology> The common raccoon. 5. <zoology> Same as Washerwoman. Origin: AS. Waescere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washerman's mark | An allergic contact dermatitis due to hypersensitivity to ingredients in laundry marking ink. Synonym: dhobie mark, washerman's mark. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washerwoman | 1. A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others. 2. <zoology> The pied wagtail; so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washerwoman's itch | An eczematous eruption of the hands and arms of washerwomen, dishwashers, and others whose hands are excessively immersed in water. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washing | 1. The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution. 2. The clothes washed, especially. At one time; a wash. <chemistry> Washing bear See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium. Washing stuff, any earthy deposit containing gold enough to pay for washing it; so called among gold miners. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washing soda | Na2CO3-10H2O;used in the treatment of scaly skin diseases; otherwise rarely used in medicine because of its irritant action. Synonym: sal soda, soda, washing soda. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washout test | A means of estimating renal obstruction by the rate of disappearance of excreted radioactive material from the kidney. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wasite | <chemical> A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium. See: Wasium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wasium | <chemistry> A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium. Origin: NL. So called from Wasa, or Vasa, the name of a former royal family of Sweden. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wart |
A hard rough lump growing on the skin, caused by infection with certain viruses and occurring typically on the hands or feet. [Dorland]
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| watchful waiting |
Planned treatment in which the doctor follows your condition closely for any changes, without actual treatment, until symptoms appear. If the situation changes, curative treatments such as surgery or radiation can then be used.
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| wart |
generally a benigh tumor of skin cells caused by a virus
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| wall |
Generally referring to cell wall.
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| wart |
A small, blunt-tipped, rounded outgrowth.
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| WA | a path set aside for walking |
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| WA | manner of walking |
| WA | obtain a base on balls, in baseball |
| WA | give a base on balls to |
| WA | take a walk |
| WA | use one's feet to advance |
| WA | make walk |
| WA | accompany or escort |
| WA | traverse or cover by walking |
| WA | walk at a pace |
| WA | be or act in association with |
| WA | live or behave in a specified manner |