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What does swash mean?

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Noun
  1. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
  2. (typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
  3. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
  4. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
  5. (obsolete) A blustering noise.
  6. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
  7. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
  8. (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
  2. (intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
  3. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
Adjective
  1. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.
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