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Webster 1913 Edition

Swash

Swash

,
Noun.
[Cf.
Swash
,
Verb.
I.
,
Squash
,
Verb.
T.
]
(Arch.)
An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
Moxon.
Swash plate
(Mach.)
,
a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.

Swash

,
Adj.
[Cf.
Swash
,
Verb.
I.
,
Squash
,
Verb.
T.
]
Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
[Prov. Eng.]
Pegge.

Swash

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Swashed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Swashing
.]
[Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw.
svasska
to splash, and, for sense 3, Sw.
svassa
to bully, to rodomontade.]
1.
To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash;
as, water
swashing
on a shallow place
.
2.
To fall violently or noisily.
[Obs.]
Holinshed.
3.
To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

Swash

,
Noun.
1.
Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
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.
3.
Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
[Obs.]
4.
A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
[Obs.]
5.
A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

Webster 1828 Edition

Swash

SWASH

,
Noun.
An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. [A cant word.]

SWASH

,
Noun.
A blustering noise; a vaporing. [Not in use or vulgar.]
1.
Impulse of water flowing with violence. In the southern states of America, swash or swosh is a name given to a narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between that and the shore. Many such are found on the shores of the Carolinas.

SWASH

,
Verb.
I.
To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag. [Not in use.]

SWASH

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