lash
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”).
Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”).
Inflected forms:
form: lashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lashed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more lash
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lash
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
pos: noun
examples: I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
gloss: A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
pos: noun
examples: The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
gloss: A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
pos: noun
gloss: A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
pos: noun
examples: The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.
gloss: A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
pos: noun
examples: But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
gloss: In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
pos: noun
gloss: Flowering plants of genus Blepharis.
pos: noun
gloss: An attempt; a go at something.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
informal
examples: I'll have a lash.
Much-loved characters living on after their author’s death is not so unusual these days. Every second bloke in possession of a keyboard seems to have had a lash at a James Bond thriller, including Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, Anthony Horowitz, Christopher Wood and Sebastian Faulks.
“I felt I’d go out and grab the bull by the horns and give it a good lash and I’m very pleased to come away with second in my very first Diamond League final.”
gloss: A quantity, a great number or amount (e.g. of rain or milk).
pos: noun
examples: the Ayrshire cow gives a lash of milk on comparatively bare pasture
The oaks cry oot beneath November's lashes, But not for all the months[…]
... put a lash of scepticism in his tone.
gloss: To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward
A lesbian who was lashed as a teenager for saying she was gay.
gloss: To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Heavy seas lashed the shore.
Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.
gloss: To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws.
gloss: To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To ply the whip; to strike.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To strike vigorously; to let fly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In the final minute of six added on, Colombia would undo their good work, though, Pérez fumbling the ball allowing Hemp to lash into the empty net.
gloss: To utter censure or sarcastic language.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.
gloss: To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.
gloss: Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
pos: verb
gloss: Remiss, lax.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Relaxed.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Soft, watery, wet.
pos: adj
examples: Fruits being unwholesome and lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare.
gloss: Excellent, wonderful.
pos: adj
tags: Ulster
examples: We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!
That Chinese (food) was lash!
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
Derived words: backlash
belashed
give something a lash
lash curler
lashless
lash lift
lashlike
lashline
lashtail
lashwise
lashy
on the lash
pre-lash
whiplash
whitelash
belash
lasher
lash off
outlash
overlash
taplash
tolash
tongue-lash
unlash
windlashed
wind-lashed
lash egg
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