Wash Primer, Mordant - A pretreatment primer for cleaning new galvanizing before painting. The method was once out of favour ...
Wash
a thin, translucent coat of paint (e.g., in watercolor).
Watercolor ...
4. To wash (gold-bearing dirt) in a cradle.
v.intr. Obsolete
To lie in or as if in a cradle.
Lime wash - in effect a very thin lime putty, used as a paint or protective coating, can contain a binder such as linseed oil or tallow. It is usually white, hence white wash, pigments were added to form a colour wash.
But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree. And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your servant.
A tsunami has the power to wash away entire villages. Can architects and engineers design a building that will resist the force of tsunami waves?
Build a Safe Room ...
Waste Pipe A pipe from a wash hand basin, sink or bath to carry away the waste water into the drains.
Weather Board A timber section fixed to the bottom of a door to prevent rainwater driving in.
Piscina
A niche with a drain (like a sink) used to wash liturgical vessels after the mass.
Pre-Conquest
Before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. Synonymous with Anglo-Saxon.
Robert Adam's brother James was in Rome in 1762, drawing antiquities under the direction of Clérisseau; he invented a British Order, of which his ink-and-wash rendering with red highlighting, is at the Avery Library, Columbia University.
Kalsomine- A white or tinted paint medium containing zinc oxide, water, glue, and color that is used as a wash for walls and ceilings.
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 See also: Well, House, Ceiling, Ground, Frame
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