swash
Speech parts
1. swash - Noun
2. swash - Adjective
3. swash - Verb
Meaning
An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
To fall violently or noisily.
To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
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.
Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
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The mother splashed the baby's face with water
2. Beach face: sloping section below berm that is exposed to the swash of the waves.
On pebble and shingle beaches the swash is dissipated more quickly because the large particle size allows greater percolation, thereby reducing the power of the backwash, and the beach remains steep.
The lowercase Q's descender is usually typed without a swash due to the major style difference typically seen between the descenders of the lowercase G (a loop) and lowercase Q (vertical).
He had tried to create a calligraphic typeface for Stempel in 1948, but hot metal composition placed too many limits on the freedom of swash characters.