Wash

1. a. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
2. v. t. 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.
3. v. t. 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.
4. v. t. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
5. v. t. 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.
6. v. t. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
7. v. t. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
8. v. i. To perform the act of ablution.
9. v. i. To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
10. v. i. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
11. 1a. 1 Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
12. 1v. t. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.