Swash

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1. Verb

An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

2. Verb

Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.

3. Verb

To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.

4. Verb

To fall violently or noisily.

5. Verb

To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

6. Noun

Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.

7. Noun

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. Noun

Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.

9. Noun

A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.

10. Noun

A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

11. Noun

the movement or sound of water; "the swash of waves on the beach"
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