"Wash" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

A shallow part of a river or arm of the sea

To perform the act of ablution.

The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or
dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.

A liquid dentifrice.

To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to
perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.

A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or
preservation.

A medical preparation in a liquid form for external
application; a lotion.

The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave;
also, the sound of it.

A thin coat of color, esp. water color.

Substances collected and deposited by the action of water;
as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.

To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to
apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub
with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to
wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to
wash the bark of trees.

The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared,
tinted, etc., upon the surface.

Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed
dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.

To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as,
some calicoes do not wash.

Washy; weak.

To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action
of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off,
out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.

To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as,
heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash
goods.

A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.

The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action
of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.

To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a
running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of
road, a beach, etc.

To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed
with silver.

To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint
lightly and thinly.

A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in
the West Indies for distillation.

A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.

Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or
sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a
river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes
in Lincolnshire.

The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.

To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and
moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.