| Swash 1. (n.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. 2. (v. t.) Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. 3. (v. i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place. 4. (v. i.) To fall violently or noisily. 5. (v. i.) To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag. 6. (n.) Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water. 7. (n.) 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. 8. (n.) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. 9. (n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. 10. (n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher. Thesaurus Entries aqueduct, arroyo, asperge, babble, bed, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, bounce, brave show, bubble, burble, canal, creek bed, culvert, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, dew, donga, douche, douse, dry bed, flume, foam, froth, guggle, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gurgle, headrace, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, irrigate, irrigation ditch, lap, lapping, miles gloriosus, moisten, nullah, paddle, peacock, peacockery, peacockishness, plash, prance, purl, race, ripple, river bed, riverway, runnel, shower, slobber, slop, slosh, sluice, sparge, spatter, spillbox, spillway, spindrift, splash, splatter, splosh, splurge, sponge, spray, sprinkle, spume, spurtle, stalk, stream bed, streamway, strut, strutter, strutting, swagger, swaggerer, swaggering, swank, swanker, swash channel, swashbuckle, swashbuckler, swashbucklering, swashbucklery, swashbuckling, swasher, swish, syringe, tailrace, trill, wadi, wash, washing, water, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, wet, wet down |