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Ashy pale,
n. (Chem.) See Basyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
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Our progress was not at all impeded by the few soft, brashy floes that we encountered. F. T. Bullen. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. [ From Dash. ] Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]
A temper always flashy. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Lean and flashy songs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From 1st Plash. ]
a. [ Cf. Sw. slaska to dabble in water. Cf. Slush. ] Wet and dirty; slushy. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Easily squashed; soft. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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A polish . . . not over thin and washy. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ See Wash. ] Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; -- originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless. [ 1913 Webster ]
A weak wishy-washy man who had hardly any mind of his own. A. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash. [ 1913 Webster ]