English Dictionary

swash

/swɒʃ/

noun

The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.

The swash of the waves was calming.

意味（1）

The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.

It is not the direct battering that breaks the dyke, but overtopping, when the flow of water sweeps away the inland face, so swash length is a vital thing to accommodate, and to do that you must make an estimate of the highest possible tides.

意味（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.

According to what you say about the shells, there ought to be a thousand flamingos feeding in this very swash at this instant.

意味（3）

A wet splashing sound.

As a first warning the boiling liquid lifts the cover and washes over it with a noisy swash and clatter.

意味（4）

A smooth stroke; a swish.

Dip in and out quickly and with a swash three or four times. This serves to wash off the dust that has settled while the fruit is on the trays.

意味（5）

A swishing noise.

The swash of the whirling blades reminds me vaguely of the noise conifers make.

意味（6）

(typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.

There is a group of decorative swash initials, too.

意味（7）

A streak or patch.

On impulse he took Sunset through Brentwood and saw Cape Jessamines flaring pink above green lawns and here and there a yellow swash of jonquils.

意味（8）

(obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.

And it setteth the soul at liberty, and maketh her free to follow the will of God and doth to the soul even as health doth unto the body; after that a man is pined and wasted away with a long soaking disease, the legs cannot bear him, he cannot lift up his hands to help himself, his taste is corrupt, sugar is bitter in his mouth, his stomach abhorreth [meat.] longing after slibbersause and swash, at which a whole stomach is ready to cast his gorge.

意味（9）

(obsolete) A blustering noise.

意味（10）

(obsolete) swaggering behaviour.

Some of you are making a great swash in life and after awhile will die, leaving your families beggars, and will expect us ministers of the Gospel to come and lie about your excellencies; but we will not do it.

意味（11）

(obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

意味（12）

(architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

have the Upper Sholder of that Swash Sculped down straight, viz. to a Right Angle