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Ashery
Ashery Ash"er*y, n.
1. A depository for ashes.
2. A place where potash is made.
Dasher
Dasher Dash"er (d[a^]sh"[~e]r), n.
1. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.
2. A dashboard or splashboard. [U. S.]
3. One who makes an ostentatious parade. [Low]
Dishwasher
Dishwasher Dish"wash`er, n.
1. One who, or that which, washes dishes.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A European bird; the wagtail.
Father-lasherFather-lasher Fa"ther-lash`er, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the
sculpin; -- called also lucky proach. flasherTriple-tail Tri"ple-tail`, n. (Zo["o]l.)
An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer
parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and
middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery
gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and
anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail.
It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture
of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch,
grouper, and flasher. Flasher
Flasher Flash"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, flashes.
2. A man of more appearance of wit than reality.
Gas washer Gas fitter, one who lays pipes and puts up fixtures for
gas.
Gas fitting.
(a) The occupation of a gas fitter.
(b) pl. The appliances needed for the introduction of gas
into a building, as meters, pipes, burners, etc.
Gas fixture, a device for conveying illuminating or
combustible gas from the pipe to the gas-burner,
consisting of an appendage of cast, wrought, or drawn
metal, with tubes upon which the burners, keys, etc., are
adjusted.
Gas generator, an apparatus in which gas is evolved; as:
(a) a retort in which volatile hydrocarbons are evolved by
heat;
(b) a machine in which air is saturated with the vapor of
liquid hydrocarbon; a carburetor;
(c) a machine for the production of carbonic acid gas, for
a["e]rating water, bread, etc. --Knight.
Gas jet, a flame of illuminating gas.
Gas machine, an apparatus for carbureting air for use as
illuminating gas.
Gas meter, an instrument for recording the quantity of gas
consumed in a given time, at a particular place.
Gas retort, a retort which contains the coal and other
materials, and in which the gas is generated, in the
manufacture of gas.
Gas stove, a stove for cooking or other purposes, heated by
gas.
Gas tar, coal tar.
Gas trap, a drain trap; a sewer trap. See 4th Trap, 5.
Gas washer (Gas Works), an apparatus within which gas from
the condenser is brought in contact with a falling stream
of water, to precipitate the tar remaining in it.
--Knight.
Gas water, water through which gas has been passed for
purification; -- called also gas liquor and ammoniacal
water, and used for the manufacture of sal ammoniac,
carbonate of ammonia, and Prussian blue. --Tomlinson.
Gas well, a deep boring, from which natural gas is
discharged. --Raymond.
Gas works, a manufactory of gas, with all the machinery and
appurtenances; a place where gas is generated for lighting
cities.
Laughing gas. See under Laughing.
Marsh gas (Chem.), a light, combustible, gaseous
hydrocarbon, CH4, produced artificially by the dry
distillation of many organic substances, and occurring as
a natural product of decomposition in stagnant pools,
whence its name. It is an abundant ingredient of ordinary
illuminating gas, and is the first member of the paraffin
series. Called also methane, and in coal mines, fire
damp.
Natural gas, gas obtained from wells, etc., in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere, and largely used for
fuel and illuminating purposes. It is chiefly derived from
the Coal Measures.
Olefiant gas (Chem.). See Ethylene.
Water gas (Chem.), a kind of gas made by forcing steam over
glowing coals, whereby there results a mixture of hydrogen
and carbon monoxide. This gives a gas of intense heating
power, but destitute of light-giving properties, and which
is charged by passing through some volatile hydrocarbon,
as gasoline. Haberdashery
Haberdashery Hab"er*dash"er*y, n.
The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.),
trifles. --Burke.
Lasher
Lasher Lash"er, n.
One who whips or lashes.
LasherLasher Lash"er, n.
1. A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to
another; -- called also lashing.
2. A weir in a river. [Eng.] --Halliwell. Masher
Masher Mash"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine
for making mash.
2. A charmer of women. [Slang] --London Punch.
pied dishwasherWagtail Wag"tail`, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging
to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family
Motacillid[ae]. They have the habit of constantly jerking
their long tails up and down, whence the name.
Field wagtail, any one of several species of wagtails of
the genus Budytes having the tail shorter, the legs
longer, and the hind claw longer and straighter, than do
the water wagtails. Most of the species are yellow
beneath. Called also yellow wagtail.
Garden wagtail, the Indian black-breasted wagtail
(Nemoricola Indica).
Pied wagtail, the common European water wagtail (Motacilla
lugubris). It is variegated with black and white. The
name is applied also to other allied species having
similar colors. Called also pied dishwasher.
Wagtail flycatcher, a true flycatcher (Sauloprocta
motacilloides) common in Southern Australia, where it is
very tame, and frequents stock yards and gardens and often
builds its nest about houses; -- called also black
fantail.
Water wagtail.
(a) Any one of several species of wagtails of the restricted
genus Motacilla. They live chiefly on the shores of
ponds and streams.
(b) The American water thrush. See Water thrush.
Wood wagtail, an Asiatic wagtail; (Calobates sulphurea)
having a slender bill and short legs. RasherRash Rash, a. [Compar. Rasher; superl. Rashest.] [Probably
of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw. rask quick, brisk, rash,
Icel. r["o]skr vigorous, brave, akin to D. & G. rasch quick,
of uncertain origin.]
1. Sudden in action; quick; hasty. [Obs.] ``Strong as
aconitum or rash gunpowder.' --Shak.
2. Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. [Obs.]
I scarce have leisure to salute you, My matter is so
rash. --Shak.
3. 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.
4. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little
reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
5. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
[Prov. Eng.]
Syn: Precipitate; headlong; headstrong; foolhardy; hasty;
indiscreet; heedless; thoughtless; incautious; careless;
inconsiderate; unwary.
Usage: Rash, Adventurous, Foolhardy. A man is
adventurous who incurs risk or hazard from a love of
the arduous and the bold. A man is rash who does it
from the mere impulse of his feelings, without
counting the cost. A man is foolhardy who throws
himself into danger in disregard or defiance of the
consequences.
Was never known a more adventurous knight.
--Dryden.
Her rush hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the
fruit, she plucked, she eat. --Milton.
If any yet to be foolhardy To expose themselves
to vain jeopardy; If they come wounded off, and
lame, No honors got by such a maim. --Hudibras. RasherRasher Rash"er, n. [In sense 1, probably fr. rash, a., as
being hastily cooked.]
1. A thin slice of bacon.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys
miniatus). Sage thrasherSage Sage, n. [OE. sauge, F. sauge, L. salvia, from salvus
saved, in allusion to its reputed healing virtues. See
Safe.] (Bot.)
(a) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with
grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc.
The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which
many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet
sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.
(b) The sagebrush.
Meadow sage (Bot.), a blue-flowered species of Salvia (S.
pratensis) growing in meadows in Europe.
Sage cheese, cheese flavored with sage, and colored green
by the juice of leaves of spinach and other plants which
are added to the milk.
Sage cock (Zo["o]l.), the male of the sage grouse; in a
more general sense, the specific name of the sage grouse.
Sage green, of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves
of garden sage.
Sage grouse (Zo["o]l.), a very large American grouse
(Centrocercus urophasianus), native of the dry sagebrush
plains of Western North America. Called also cock of the
plains. The male is called sage cock, and the female
sage hen.
Sage hare, or Sage rabbit (Zo["o]l.), a species of hare
(Lepus Nuttalli, or artemisia) which inhabits the arid
regions of Western North America and lives among
sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely
a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit.
Sage hen (Zo["o]l.), the female of the sage grouse.
Sage sparrow (Zo["o]l.), a small sparrow (Amphispiza
Belli, var. Nevadensis) which inhabits the dry plains
of the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush.
Sage thrasher (Zo["o]l.), a singing bird (Oroscoptes
montanus) which inhabits the sagebrush plains of Western
North America.
Sage willow (Bot.), a species of willow (Salix tristis)
forming a low bush with nearly sessile grayish green
leaves. Sage thrasherThrasher Thrash"er, Thresher Thresh"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing
machine.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes),
remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its
tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is
found both upon the American and the European coasts.
Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher,
swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other
allied species. See Brown thrush.
Sage thrasher. (Zo["o]l.) See under Sage.
Thrasher whale (Zo["o]l.), the common killer of the
Atlantic. SasherySashery Sash"er*y, n. [From 1st Sash.]
A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes.
[R.]
Distinguished by their sasheries and insignia.
--Carlyle. Slasher
Slasher Slash"er, n. (Textile Manuf.)
A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
slasherThrasher Thrash"er, Thresher Thresh"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing
machine.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes),
remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its
tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is
found both upon the American and the European coasts.
Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher,
swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other
allied species. See Brown thrush.
Sage thrasher. (Zo["o]l.) See under Sage.
Thrasher whale (Zo["o]l.), the common killer of the
Atlantic. Smasher
Smasher Smash"er (-[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to
pieces.
2. Anything very large or extraordinary. [Slang]
3. One who passes counterfeit coin. [Cant, Eng.]
Splasher
Splasher Splash"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, splashes.
2. One of the guarde over the wheels, as of a carriage,
locomotive, etc. --Weale.
3. A guard to keep off splashes from anything.
Squasher
Squasher Squash"er, n.
One who, or that which, squashes.
Swasher
Swasher Swash"er, n.
One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.
--Shak.
Sweepwasher
Sweepwasher Sweep"wash`er, n.
One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the
sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver,
or places where these metals are used.
ThrasherShark Shark, n. [Of uncertain origin; perhaps through OF. fr.
carcharus a kind of dogfish, Gr. karchari`as, so called from
its sharp teeth, fr. ka`rcharos having sharp or jagged teeth;
or perhaps named from its rapacity (cf. Shark, v. t. & i.);
cf. Corn. scarceas.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch
fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
Note: Some sharks, as the basking shark and the whale shark,
grow to an enormous size, the former becoming forty
feet or more, and the latter sixty feet or more, in
length. Most of them are harmless to man, but some are
exceedingly voracious. The man-eating sharks mostly
belong to the genera Carcharhinus, Carcharodon, and
related genera. They have several rows of large sharp
teeth with serrated edges, as the great white shark
(Carcharodon carcharias, or Rondeleti) of tropical
seas, and the great blue shark (Carcharhinus glaucus)
of all tropical and temperate seas. The former
sometimes becomes thirty-six feet long, and is the most
voracious and dangerous species known. The rare
man-eating shark of the United States coast
(Charcarodon Atwoodi) is thought by some to be a
variety, or the young, of C. carcharias. The dusky
shark (Carcharhinus obscurus), and the smaller blue
shark (C. caudatus), both common species on the coast
of the United States, are of moderate size and not
dangerous. They feed on shellfish and bottom fishes.
2. A rapacious, artful person; a sharper. [Colloq.]
3. Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
[Obs.] --South.
Baskin shark, Liver shark, Nurse shark, Oil shark,
Sand shark, Tiger shark, etc. See under Basking,
Liver, etc. See also Dogfish, Houndfish,
Notidanian, and Tope.
Gray shark, the sand shark.
Hammer-headed shark. See Hammerhead.
Port Jackson shark. See Cestraciont.
Shark barrow, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse.
Shark ray. Same as Angel fish
(a), under Angel.
Thrasher shark, or Thresher shark, a large, voracious
shark. See Thrasher.
Whale shark, a huge harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) of
the Indian Ocean. It becomes sixty feet or more in length,
but has very small teeth. ThrasherThrasher Thrash"er, Thresher Thresh"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing
machine.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes),
remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its
tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is
found both upon the American and the European coasts.
Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher,
swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other
allied species. See Brown thrush.
Sage thrasher. (Zo["o]l.) See under Sage.
Thrasher whale (Zo["o]l.), the common killer of the
Atlantic. thrasher sharkThrasher Thrash"er, Thresher Thresh"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing
machine.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes),
remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its
tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is
found both upon the American and the European coasts.
Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher,
swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other
allied species. See Brown thrush.
Sage thrasher. (Zo["o]l.) See under Sage.
Thrasher whale (Zo["o]l.), the common killer of the
Atlantic. Thrasher whaleThrasher Thrash"er, Thresher Thresh"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing
machine.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes),
remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its
tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is
found both upon the American and the European coasts.
Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher,
swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other
allied species. See Brown thrush.
Sage thrasher. (Zo["o]l.) See under Sage.
Thrasher whale (Zo["o]l.), the common killer of the
Atlantic. WasherWasher Wash"er, n. [AS. w[ae]scere.]
1. One who, or that which, washes.
2. A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a
perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a
bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or
around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub
of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a
packing, etc.
3. (Plumbing) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a
cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet
opening.
4. (Zo["o]l.) The common raccoon.
5. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Washerwoman, 2. [Prov. Eng.] WashermanWasherman Wash"er*man, n.; pl. Washermen.
A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.
Meaning of Asher from wikipedia
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Asher (Hebrew: אָשֵׁר ’Āšēr), in the Book of Genesis, was the last of the two sons of
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character in the Book of Genesis.
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