<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of a person or thing that washes; ablution.</li><li>clothes, linens, etc., washed or to be washed, especially those washed at one time; wash.</li><li>Often washings.</li><li>any liquid that has been used to wash something.</li><li>matter removed or carried off in washing something or by the force of water: The washings from numerous spring floods had clogged the mouth of the river.</li><li>Mining. Material, as gold dust, obtained by washing earth, gravel, etc.</li><li>the deposits so washed.</li><li>Metalworking. Wash (def 46).</li><li>the act of making a wash sale.</li></ul>