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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Whitewash

White'wash, n.

noun

(hwĭt'wŏsh), n.

  1. A wash or liquid composition for whitening something; a wash for making the skin fair.
  2. A composition of lime and water, or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening the plaster of walls, and the like.

White'wash, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. WHITEWASHED (hwit'wŏsht); p. pr. & vb. n. WHITEWASHING.]

  1. To cover with a white liquid composition, as with lime and water, &c.
  2. To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; hence, to clear, as an insolvent or bankrupt, of debts he owes; to clear from imputations.