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Moistening
of Moisten
Wash
To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
Sensing
of Sense
Discharge
Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
Sprinkling
of Sprinkle
Demulcent
Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
Lenitive
Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
Assuasive
Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing.
Mitigating
of Mitigate
Inundation
The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.
Birdlime
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 bird..
Benzine
A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, pet..
Meed
That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense.
Holystone
A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.
Palliative
Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Easing
of Ease
Piscina
A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels.
Perfumer
One who, oe that which, perfumes.
Apologetic
Alt. of Apologetical
Expurgatory
Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.
Purgatorial
Alt. of Purgatorian
Lustral
Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.
Cleaning
of Clean
Diuretic
Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.
Enema
An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
Cleaner
One who, or that which, cleans.
Balmy
Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.
Seneschal
An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of ..
Basilica
Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used..
Cathartic
Alt. of Catharical
Affusion
The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism.
Redeeming
of Redeem
Purifying
of Purify
Redemptive
Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ.
Compensatory
Serving for compensation; making amends.
Punitive
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
Reparative
Repairing, or tending to repair.
Repentant
Penitent; sorry for sin.
Condensation
The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
Retaliatory
Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
Watering
of Water
Splashing
of Splash
Clairvoyant
Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.
Provocative
Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting.
Surcease
Cessation; stop; end.
Emollient
Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.
Distribution
The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
Remedial
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.
Purification
The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of ..
Softening
of Soften
Curry
To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
Hatchel
An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.
Wit
of Wit
Alleviative
Tending to alleviate.
Purgation
The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.
Removal
The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
Detersion
The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.
Purging
of Purge
Emetic
Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.
Freeing
of Free
Submersion
The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning.
Dispensation
The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
Immersion
The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.
Anodyne
Serving to assuage pain; soothing.
Engine
(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.
Pumice stone
Same as Pumice.
Cleansing
of Cleanse
Washing
of Wash
Ablution
The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
Scouring
of Scour
Purgative
Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.
Detergent
Cleansing; purging.
Bath
The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam ..
Cleanser
One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent.
Nauseant
A substance which produces nausea.
Cream
The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
Anesthetic
Same as Anaesthesia, Anaesthetic.
Expurgation
The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
Dulling
of Dull
Soothing
of Soothe
Propitiatory
Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice.
Judicature
The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.
Judicatory
Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals.
Ascetic
Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
Numbing
of Numb
Washout
The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, wh..
Spattering
of Spatter
Refinement
The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.
Purgatory
Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.
Due
Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.
Baptism
The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, s..
Wash
To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body..
Respite
A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.
Catharsis
A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.
Wise
Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
Reciprocal
Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.
Bathing
of Bathe
Lavatory
Washing, or cleansing by washing.
Purge
To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
Deadening
of Deaden
Subduing
of Subdue
Comb
An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
Generator
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
Dentifrice
A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.
Purifier
One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.
Intuitive
Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.
Scrub
To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
Deliverance
The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.
Shampoo
To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.
Flush
To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
Rinse
To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
Feeling
of Feel
Lotion
A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.
Solvent
Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.
Suspension
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
Release
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
Intermission
The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
Deluge
A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).
Irrigation
The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
Soap
A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, an..
Rinsing
of Rinse
Douche
A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.
Sponge
Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.
Syringe
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 withou..
Sponging
of Sponge
Reprieve
To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.
Regalia
That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty.
Discharge
To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
