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washed, ppl. a.|wɒʃt|
[f. wash v. + -ed1.]
1. a. Cleansed by rubbing in water or other liquid; also, moistened or drenched with water.
1557North Guevara's Diall Pr. iv. vii. (1568) 125 b, A paire of washed or perfume gloues. 1586Whitney Choice Emblems 136 With Towell faire, to wipe theire washed hands. 1605Shakes. Lear i. i. 271 The Iewels of our Father, with wash'd eies Cordelia leaues you. 1620Markham Farew. Husb. xiii. 104 Now it is not amisse that I speake here a word or two of washt corne, or the washing of corne. 1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4184/4, 302 Bags of Cloth wash'd and unwash'd Spanish Felt Wooll. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxix, Then thy spruce citizen, wash'd artisan, And smug apprentice gulp their weekly air. 1864T. S. Williams & Simmonds Engl. Commerc. Corresp. 239, 1s. 6d. pr. lb. for washed Merino free from burr.
b. Treated with water or other liquid so as to remove impurities or soluble matter, to separate heavier from lighter parts, etc.
c1575Perf. Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes (1886) 9 This..will make more synues then all the scourings or washed meates that are used. 1600Surflet Country Farm v. xxi. 721 Washed bread is a meate very profitable for the health..bicause the washing of it doth wholie take away the heauines and clammines belonging vnto the earthie parts thereof. 1729Woodward Fossils i. I. 169 This last the People who gather it here, call Wash'd-Amber. 1785J. Imison Sch. Arts (1796) II. 68 Adding about one part of washed whiting to three parts of carmine. 1810J. Bailey Agric. Durham 40 note, This is not clean or washed ore; but ore mixed with other substances that could not be separated in washing. 1849Pereira Elem. Mat. Med. (ed. 3) I. 344 When thus purified, it is called washed sulphur (sulphur lotum vel depuratum). 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 101 Washed or double-washed Emery.
†c. Of coin: Sweated. Obs.
1711J. Tonson Waller's Poems A 3, Clipt and washt money goes about, when the entire and weighty lies hoarded up.
d. Covered with a coating of precious metal.
1772Lond. Chron. 21–24 Mar. 288/3 It appeared there was but four shillings out of the guinea and half [of silver] good, the rest being only a washed metal. 1776Pennsylv. Even. Post 25 May 264/2 An olive coloured short fustian coat, with..silver washed buttons.
e. Of a water-colour or monochrome drawing: Having the tints produced by colour laid on in ‘washes’.
1770Exhib. R. Acad. 19 The Resurrection,..a washed drawing. 1784J. Barry Lect. Art iii. (1848) 133 Raphael's washed drawing of the Calumny of Apelles. 1884Linton Wood-Engraving 50 A ‘washed drawing’ is one in which shadows, broad tints,..(indeed all masses of colour,) are washed in broadly with a brush in sepia or India ink.
f. Of stock, or sale of stock: see quot. and wash v. 20 b.
1886Harper's Mag. July 205/1 Washed or fictitious sales, or false reports of sales, are also penal offences. 1888–9New York Produce Exch. Rep. 265 (Cent.) Washed or fictitious sales are positively forbidden.
†g. fig. Of language: ? Refined, elegant. (? after L. lautus.) Obs.
1628Feltham Resolves i. xx. 67, I know, God hath chosen by weake things, to confound the wise: yet I see not but in all times, a washed Language hath much preuailed.
†h. washed leather = wash-leather. Obs.
1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xxxii, Wash'd-Leather Boots [botines de cordouan].
i. Of a carpet: faded, bleached; specially treated so as to soften the colours and impart a sheen.
1911G. G. Lewis Pract. Bk. Oriental Rugs iii. 40 What the trade speaks of as a ‘washed’ rug is not necessarily a ‘doctored’ one. There is a legitimate form of washing which is really a finishing process... It merely washes out the surplus color and sets the rest. 1962C. W. Jacobsen Oriental Rugs 121 The danger of your buying both chemically washed and painted rugs today is practically nil. 1969[see Peking carpet s.v. Peking 3]. 1970‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird ii. 20 My room had..wall-to-wall washed Chinese carpeting in quiet shades of money. 1982G. F. Newman Men with Guns x. 74 Wallechinsky moved agitatedly across the living room..his expensive, imported shoes making a faint squeak on the washed silk Chinese rug.
2. washed out.
a. Of a fabric, dye, etc.: That has faded, or lost freshness, in the wash.
1796Jane Austen Let. 1 Sept. (1952) 9 My new coloured gown is very much washed out, though I charged everybody to take great care of it. 1837J. Morier Abel Allnutt xx. 117 The threadbare carpets, the washed-out curtains. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 342/1 Habited in a washed-out-blue French kind of pinafore. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 51 The shabby washed-out look of any colour which has not been dyed in this way.
b. fig. Lacking in colour, animation, etc.
1850Smedley F. Fairlegh i, A complexion and general appearance only to be described by the term ‘washed out’. 1862Trollope Orley F. xii, There was..none of that lanky, washed-out appearance which sorrow and trouble so often give to females. 1865W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 166 They are a washed-out lot; but they laugh. 1885Huxley in Life (1900) II. vi. 95, I am better..but curiously weak and washed out.
3. (all) washed up: finished; without prospect of further success or competence; no longer on intimate terms; exhausted, ‘washed out’. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1923N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2/1 [Stage slang.] Washed up, all through for the night. 1925Amer. Speech I. 36/1 [Stage slang.] How cheery it would be, when family ties begin to irk, to use their honest, ‘I'm washed up with you,’ to indicate that you hope the breach is permanent. 1933S. Kingsley Men in White (1934) iii. i. 109 I'm washed up with the whole business. 1934W. Saroyan Daring Young Man 38 We're washed up as a race, we're through, it's all over. 1935J. T. Farrell Judgment Day (1945) I. xvi. 312 His lips twisted into a sneer at himself, and he thought that he was just a goddam washed-up has-been. 1942J. B. Priestley Black-Out in Gretley viii. 182 You're too careless, Joe..and now you're all washed up. 1958C. Williams Man in Motion (1959) ii. 23 I'm washed up as a writer. 1980Newsweek 17 Nov. 7/1 Once he was the most underestimated man in American politics—a washed-up movie star, it was said, who was too old, too simple and too far right to be President.
4. to get washed up: to get the washing up done.
1950J. Cannan Murder Included i. 12 Have to dine early now... We've only got Mrs Witts in the kitchen, and she likes to get washed up and finished. |