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from The Century Dictionary.
- An old spelling of
wash .
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Examples
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Too nervous, too busywhatever it wasshe never got around to the very simple task of opening a brokerage account and buying a mutual fund or two.
Enough Already Peter Walsh 2009
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The Persians beare suche reuerence to their floudes, that thei neither wasshe, pysse, nor throwe deade carcase into them.
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Ye have my father's blood upon your hands; let be, it will not wasshe.
The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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So fowle _tha_t yt be lothsome on to see; 264 wasshe w_i_t_h_ wat_er_ yo_u_r hond_is_ so clene
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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¶ Yo_u_r hond_is_ wasshe; yt ys an holsom thyng; yo_u_r naylis loke they be not gety blake, 44
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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The Persians beare suche reuerence to their floudes, that thei neither wasshe, pysse, nor throwe deade carcase into them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Thenne the principall servitours moste take in ij handys, basyns and ewers, and towell, and therwith to awayte and attende unto the tyme that the grace be fully saide; and thenne incontynent after grace saide, to serve water with the principall basyn and ewer unto the principall soverayne, and ij principall servitours to holde the towell under the basyn in lenght before the sovrayne; and after that the sovrayne hath wasshe, to yeve thenne water unto such as ben ordeyned to sytte at the sovrayne-is messe.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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