noun

• (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
  "It is not the direct battering that breaks the dyke, but overtopping, when the flow of water sweeps away the inland face, so swash length is a vital thing to accommodate, and to do that you must make an estimate of the highest possible tides."
• (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
  "Yet Svvaſh-Letters, […] ought to have the Upper Sholder of that Svvaſh Sculped dovvn ſtraight, viz. to a Right Angle, or Square vvith the Face; […]"
• (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
  "And it setteth the soul at liberty, and maketh her free to follow the will of God and doth to the soul even as health doth unto the body; after that a man is pined and wasted away with a long soaking disease, the legs cannot bear him, he cannot lift up his hands to help himself, his taste is corrupt, sugar is bitter in his mouth, his stomach abhorreth [meat.] longing after slibbersause and swash, at which a whole stomach is ready to cast his gorge."
• (obsolete) A blustering noise.

verb

• (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
  "He swashed out of the room, and presently we heard his angry voice berating his bearer."
• (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
  "How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!"
• (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
  "The parts are swashed in the solution until they are clean and are then rinsed in cold running water."
• (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
  "Kala Nag swashed out of the water, blew his trunk clear, and began another climb; but this time he was not alone, and he had not to make his path."

adj

• (typography) Having pronounced swashes.
  "The French compositor took the greek capitals for latin ones and sought out his swashest type to set the handwritten letters,"