ppl. a. arch. and dial. [str. pa. pple. of WASH v.] Washed. Also with adv. prefixed, as clean-, ill-, new-, well-washen.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 415/1. Weschyn, lotus.

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1525–34.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 122. Laye a clene washen shete vppon the stole.

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1594.  A. Hume, Poems, etc. (S.T.S.), 101. Til eit meat with weschen or vnweschen hands.

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1617.  Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1848), II. 350. With goode bedding, weele washine and weele smellit naprie.

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1637.  Rutherford, Lett. to Ld. Craighall, 10 Aug. Some ill-washen and foul distinctions.

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1868.  H. Law, Beacons of Bible (1869), 89. The washen swine returning to the mire.

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1870.  Bryant, Iliad, I. 563. With washen hands They took the salted meal.

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1879.  Butcher & Lang, Odyss., VI. 64. 94. These are always eager for new-washen garments wherein to go to the dances.

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  † b.  washen leather = WASH-LEATHER. Obs.

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  Cf. washed leather, WASHED 1 h.

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c. 1425.  York Memo. Bk. (Surtees), I. 65. For a dossan wesshyn leddyr.

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