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plash

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

plashn. [OD. plasch. See Plash, v.].
  •  A small pool of standing water; a puddle.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A dash of water; a splash.  [1913 Webster]
plashv. i. [Cf. D. plassen, G. platschen. Cf. Splash.].
     To dabble in water; to splash.  Keats.  [1913 Webster]
    "Far below him plashed the waters."  [1913 Webster]
plashv. t. 
  •  To splash, as water.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.  [1913 Webster]
plashv. t. [OF. plaissier, plessier, to bend. Cf. Pleach.].
     To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge.  Evelyn.  [1913 Webster]
plashn. 
     The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

plash, n. & v.
--n.
1 a splash; a plunge.
2 a a marshy pool. b a puddle.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. splash.
2 tr. strike the surface of (water).

Derivative
plashy adj.
plash, v.tr.
1 bend down and interweave (branches, twigs, etc.) to form a hedge.
2 make or renew (a hedge) in this way.

Etymology
ME f. OF pla(i)ssier ult. f. L plectere plait: cf. PLEACH

THESAURUS

plash

artificial lake, babble, bayou lake, brash, bubble, burble, burst of rain, cistern, cloudburst, dam, dead water, deluge, dike, douse, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, etang, farm pond, fishpond, flood, foam, freshwater lake, froth, glacial lake, guggle, gurgle, gushing rain, heavy rain, inland sea, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, lap, lapping, linn, loch, lough, mere, millpond, millpool, nyanza, oxbow lake, pond, pondlet, pool, pour, puddle, purl, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, reservoir, ripple, salina, salt pond, scud, shower, slop, slosh, soaker, soaking rain, sparge, spate, spatter, spindrift, splash, splatter, splosh, splurge, spout, spray, sprinkle, spume, spurtle, stagnant water, standing water, still water, sump, swash, swish, tank, tarn, tidal pond, torrent of rain, trill, volcanic lake, wash, washing, water hole, water pocket, waterspout, well

ROGET THESAURUS

plash

Lake

N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.

VB flow, run, meander, gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue, drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate, stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash, guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate, ooze, flow out, rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks, pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in, mizzle, flow into, fall into, open into, drain into, discharge itself, disembogue, pour, pour out, shower down, irrigate, drench, spill, splash, stanch, dam, up, obstruct.

Resonance

VB resound, reverberate, reecho, resonate, ring, jingle, gingle, chink, clink, tink, tinkle, chime, gurgle, plash, goggle, echo, ring in the ear.


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