swash

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

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

Verb

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

Adjective

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