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To be washed, scoured, cleansed or cleared utterly--as land by an inundation, the body by dysentery, a village by marauders. 2 To pine away; to consume or waste gradually--the body from grief, envy &c. 3 To smoulder. 4 To hang upon; to linger--a disorder. 5 To hang lin- geringly and decliningly--a business. 6 To waste, in many applications,--to waste-away--grain, sugar &c., a mound or bank, an abscess or impostume, a soil through heavy culture &c. &c. 7 C To be washed. Used, sometimes, transitively To wash.
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