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swash

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Noun

  1. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
  2. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
  3. A wet splashing sound.
  4. A smooth stroke; a swish.
  5. A swishing noise.
  6. A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
  7. A streak or patch.
  8. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
  9. A blustering noise.
  10. swaggering behaviour.
  11. A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
  12. An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

Verb

  1. To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
  2. To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
  3. To swirl through liquid; to swish.
  4. To wade forcefully through liquid.
  5. To swipe.
  6. To fall violently or noisily.
  7. To streak, to color in a swash.

Adjective

  1. bold; dramatic.
  2. Having pronounced swashes.

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