Washed

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • That has been subjected to washing, in any sense.
  • Of the nature of a “wash”: applied on the exchanges to a mere transfer by a broker of the stock or commodity which one principal had instructed him to sell to another customer who had given instructions to purchase a similar quantity of the same stock or commodity.
  • In zoology, overlaid, as a surface or a groundcolor, with a wash or light tint or color: as, a fox's black pelt washed with silver. See wash, n., 10 .
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.
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  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of wash.
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  • adjective. clean by virtue of having been washed in water
  • adjective. wet as from washing; sometimes used in combination
  • Word Usage
    "This increase will be of approximately -- taking into account increases and other measures of which I will speak later -- 11.57 (presumably pesos -- ed.) per quintal of low grade coffee, (? and) 13.62 per quintal of what we call washed coffee. (as heard)"
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    Equivalent
    clean  wet  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    verb-stem
    wash