Meaning of Swash | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
   countable, uncountable
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.
   countable, uncountable
3. A wet splashing sound.
   countable, uncountable
4. A smooth stroke; a swish.
   countable, uncountable
5. A swishing noise.
   countable, uncountable
6. A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
   countable, uncountable
7. A streak or patch.
   countable, uncountable
8. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
9. A blustering noise.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
10. swaggering behaviour.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
11. A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
12. An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“It is not the direct⟳ battering that breaks the dyke, but overtopping, when the flow⟳ of water sweeps away the inland face⟳, so swash length is a vital thing to accommodate, and to do that you must make⟳ an estimate⟳ of the highest possible tides.”

“The first process⟳ occurs when swash mixes air and sand, trapping air bubbles just below the beach surface.”

“The swash is made up of the remnants of a breaking wave⟳.”

“According to what you say⟳ about the shells, there ought to be a thousand flamingos feeding in this very swash at this instant.”

“Marks northwest junction of main and swash channels.”

“This is defined as a modified ridge or swash bar that develops into a berm on the swash bar's seaward margin (Coastal Research⟳ Group, 1969, p. 455).”

“At Cape Hatteras, numerous vessels ran aground, “driven from their anchors and grounded on the swash and bar.””

“As a first warning the boiling liquid lifts the cover⟳ and washes over it with a noisy swash and clatter.”

“The sound⟳ of the furious "swash, swash,” as it struck, carried even to the depths of the holds where the engines churned madly to keep⟳ the prow in the teeth of the waves.”

“I'd wish⟳ with a swish, or I'd wash⟳ with a swash - and I'd dash (but not clash) with a dish ( but never squish your good things )”

“I listen⟳ to the soothing swash, swash of the waves and feel⟳ renewed strength in mind⟳”

“Dip in and out quickly and with a swash three or four times. This serves to wash⟳ off the dust that has settled while the fruit is on the trays.”

“Then he cut⟳ down a long forked stick⟳, the anti-ophidian of the poor, and probing with the stick⟳ in one hand, began to clean⟳ the yuca grove with the machete in the other, displaying the lazy elegance of an athlete – swash, swash, swash – free and easy but looking carefully at each detail.”

“It had all been like⟳ a swash of pink cool-aid punch in her surprised face⟳,some brigand of flailing emotions, in her golden pocket-book, where they could hear⟳ a fading swami-echo speaking out for animal rights, and damned yogic impulse.”

“She does not know⟳ whose hands are whose, but feels the swash and jangle of a tickle⟳ shoot⟳ up her neck.”

“The swash of the whirling blades reminds me vaguely of the noise conifers make⟳.”

“Nothing but more swash and click, until l heard... “Eurah!” Crunching! There it was: a definite crunching.”

“Swash! Swish! Swash! The wood saws chimed as they went back and forth cutting down tree branches.”

“Yet Svvaſh-Letters, […] ought to have⟳ the Upper Sholder of that Svvaſh Sculped dovvn ſtraight, viz. to a Right Angle, or Square vvith the Face⟳; […]”

“There is a group of decorative swash initials, too.”

“so swash versions of the capitals were produced as alternatives.”

“Tracy also wrote that the italic was too distinctive to combine⟳ well with the roman, and that the alternative swash characters made for the italic "prettify the text only at the expense of comforatable reading."”

“GX provides a mechanism for determining if a glyph is at the start⟳ or end⟳ of a text line (so swash substitutions could be made dependent on this) while Opentype ^([sic]) does not.”

“The grim satisfied smile⟳ on the woman's pug face⟳ suggests that she is doing this primarily to take⟳ revenge upon the absent, so conspiciously absent husband: there is a happy violence in the very swash of her signature.”

“To differentiate between a swash and a flourish, note⟳ that swash is a typographical term that refers to the end⟳ of a letter that is extended in a curved flourish, and a flourish itself is just a decorative curl in general.”

“On impulse he took Sunset through Brentwood and saw⟳ Cape Jessamines flaring pink above green lawns and here and there a yellow swash of jonquils.”

“Hank stared for a moment at the bloody swash across his hand.”

“Additionally, males have⟳ an extra swash of red running parallel from the base⟳ of the bill to the eye.”

“Spring⟳ had painted the land⟳ with a swash of verdant splendor, and it was difficult for Jeremy to remain⟳ in a foul mood despite the fact he was about to be ousted from his search⟳, and his bed, by Alison Cunningham.”

“To reach⟳ the blackberries, he has to cut⟳ a path with the sickle through a swash of six-foot flowering nettles that sting⟳ his exposed wrists now and again, sweating in the sun's blaze.”

“And it setteth the soul at liberty, and maketh her free to follow⟳ the will of God and doth to the soul even as health doth unto the body; after that a man is pined and wasted away with a long soaking disease, the legs cannot bear⟳ him, he cannot lift⟳ up his hands to help⟳ himself, his taste⟳ is corrupt, sugar is bitter in his mouth, his stomach abhorreth [meat.] longing after slibbersause and swash, at which a whole stomach is ready to cast⟳ his gorge.”

“Some of you are making a great swash in life and after awhile will die⟳, leaving your families beggars, and will expect⟳ us ministers of the Gospel to come⟳ and lie⟳ about your excellencies; but we will not do it.”

“He silently cursed the recently arrived Jessup, who was full of more swash than sense⟳ .”

“Not short on self-assurance, Gulbadeen opened the batting (and bowled at the death) with more swash than buckle.”

“The lathe was, in process⟳ of time, adapted to the production of oval figures, twisted and swash-work, as it is called, and, lastly, of rose-engine work⟳. The swash, or raking mouldings, were employed in the balusters of staircases and other ornaments at the period of the "Renaissance" in architecture, about the end⟳ of the sixteenth century, and, therefore, the swash-lathe assumes somewhat of the character of a manufacturing machine.”

“The artisans of the Middle Ages were very skilful in the use⟳ of the lathe, and turned out much beautiful screen and stall work⟳, still to be seen in our cathedrals, as well as twisted and swash-work for the balusters of staircases and other ornamental purposes.”

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