calash | noun (n.) A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage. |
| noun (n.) In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front. |
| noun (n.) A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure. |
| noun (n.) A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage. |
cash | noun (n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. |
| noun (n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money |
| noun (n.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. |
| noun (n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin. |
| verb (v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order. |
| verb (v. t.) To disband. |
crash | noun (n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. |
| noun (n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise. |
| noun (n.) Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels. |
| verb (v. t. ) To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise. |
| verb (v. i.) To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof. |
dash | noun (n.) Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash. |
| noun (n.) A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash. |
| noun (n.) A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple. |
| noun (n.) A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain. |
| noun (n.) Energy in style or action; animation; spirit. |
| noun (n.) A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash. |
| noun (n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. |
| noun (n.) The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner. |
| noun (n.) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone. |
| noun (n.) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race. |
| verb (v. t.) To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against. |
| verb (v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin. |
| verb (v. t.) To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. |
| verb (v. t.) To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture. |
| verb (v. t.) To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon. |
| verb (v. t.) To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word. |
| verb (v. i.) To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks. |
flash | noun (n.) To trick up in a showy manner. |
| noun (n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. |
| noun (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning. |
| noun (n.) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show. |
| noun (n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period. |
| noun (n.) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors. |
| noun (n.) Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes. |
| noun (n.) A pool. |
| noun (n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal. |
| adjective (a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery. |
| adjective (a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry. |
| verb (v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. |
| verb (v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash. |
| verb (v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily. |
| verb (v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light. |
| verb (v. t.) To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b). |
lash | noun (n.) The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. |
| noun (n.) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare. |
| noun (n.) A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes. |
| noun (n.) A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut. |
| noun (n.) A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash. |
| noun (n.) In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure. |
| noun (n.) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike with a lash ; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail. |
| verb (v. t.) To throw out with a jerk or quickly. |
| verb (v. t.) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice. |
| verb (v. i.) To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language. |
leash | noun (n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog. |
| noun (n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general. |
| noun (n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom. |
| verb (v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash. |
mash | noun (n.) A mesh. |
| noun (n.) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort. |
| noun (n.) A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals. |
| noun (n.) A mess; trouble. |
| verb (v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort. |
quash | noun (n.) Same as Squash. |
| noun (n.) Same as Squash. |
| verb (v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment. |
| verb (v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush. |
| verb (v. t.) To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion. |
| verb (v. i.) To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise. |
| verb (v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment. |
| verb (v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush. |
| verb (v. t.) To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion. |
| verb (v. i.) To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise. |
plash | noun (n.) The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches. |
| verb (v.) A small pool of standing water; a puddle. |
| verb (v.) A dash of water; a splash. |
| verb (v. i.) To dabble in water; to splash. |
| verb (v. t.) To splash, as water. |
| verb (v. t.) To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge. |
rash | noun (n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation. |
| noun (n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. |
| superlative (superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty. |
| superlative (superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. |
| superlative (superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander. |
| superlative (superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures. |
| superlative (superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. |
| verb (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently. |
| verb (v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice. |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare with haste. |
sash | noun (n.) A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc. |
| noun (n.) The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes. |
| noun (n.) In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate. |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn with a sash or scarf. |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window. |
slash | noun (n.) A long cut; a cut made at random. |
| noun (n.) A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings. |
| noun (n.) Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. |
| noun (n.) A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits. |
| verb (v. t.) To lash; to ply the whip to. |
| verb (v. t.) To crack or snap, as a whip. |
| verb (v. i.) To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. |
splash | noun (n.) Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures. |
| noun (n.) A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash. |
| verb (v. t.) To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet. |
| verb (v. i.) To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter. |
squash | noun (n.) An American animal allied to the weasel. |
| noun (n.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. |
| noun (n.) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease. |
| noun (n.) Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt. |
| noun (n.) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. |
| noun (n.) A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets. |
| verb (v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. |
negative | noun (n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception. |
| noun (n.) A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no. |
| noun (n.) The refusal or withholding of assents; veto. |
| noun (n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative. |
| noun (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture. |
| noun (n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. |
| adjective (a.) Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative. |
| adjective (a.) Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism. |
| adjective (a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed. |
| adjective (a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative. |
| verb (v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove. |
| verb (v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill. |
| verb (v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract. |