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Ablution :: Ablution (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite..

Detergency :: Detergency (n.) A cleansing quality or power.

Syringed :: Syringe (n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc..

Lavatory :: Lavatory (a.) Washing, or cleansing by washing..

Smegmatic :: Smegmatic (a.) Being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.

Expurgatory :: Expurgatory (a.) Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.

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

Pipe Clay :: Pipe clay () A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments..

Cleanly :: Cleanly (superl.) Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc..

Fullage :: Fullage (n.) The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth.

Adarce :: Adarce (n.) A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy..

Twilly :: Twilly (n.) A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy..

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

Birdlime :: Birdlime (n.) An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.

Mundificative :: Mundificative (a.) Cleansing.

Expurgation :: Expurgation (n.) The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous..

Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather..

Washing :: Washing (n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.

Detersion :: Detersion (n.) The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore..

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