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Meaning
Noun
●
The water that
washes up
on
shore
after an
incoming
wave
has broken.
●
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.
●
A
wet
splashing
sound.
●
A
smooth
stroke
; a swish.
●
A
swishing
noise.
●
In Typography:
A long,
protruding
ornamental
line
or
pen
stroke
found in some
typefaces
and
styles
of calligraphy.
●
A
streak
or patch.
●
Liquid
filth
;
wash
;
hog
mash.
●
A
blustering
noise.
●
swaggering behaviour.
●
A
swaggering
fellow
; a swasher.
●
In Architecture:
An
oval
figure
, whose
mouldings
are
oblique
to the
axis
of the work.
Verb
●
To
swagger
; to
act
with
boldness
or
bluster
(toward).
●
To
dash
or
flow
noisily
; to splash.
●
To
swirl
through
liquid
; to swish.
●
To
wade
forcefully
through liquid.
●
To swipe.
●
To
fall
violently
or noisily.
●
To
streak
, to
color in
a swash.
Adj
●
bold; dramatic.
●
In Typography:
Having
pronounced
swashes.
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