swash

Definition of swash in English English dictionary: The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken; a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy (plural: swashes); To swagger; To splash; show off; a/ To fight with weapons b/ A heavy forceful blow c/ Sounds created the swift movement of a cut d/ A ruffian; A swaggering fellow; a swasher; Intermittent landward flow of water across a beach where surf is breaking; Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy; make violent, noisy movements; {f} splash, make a splashing sound; dash a liquid against a surface; move quickly and noisily; move swagger, behave in an arrogant and insolent manner; Liquid filth; wash; hog mash; Extended strokes, especially on italic style fonts, which extend far beyond the normal vertical and horizontal extent of a character, typical of cursive, decorative or fantasy fonts; 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; the movement or sound of water; "the swash of waves on the beach" make violent, noisy movements; {i} splash of a liquid; sound of liquid splashing; piece of land over which waves flow, sandbank; narrow channel through which tides flow; boastful manner, insolent behavior; the movement or sound of water; "the swash of waves on the beach"; A variation of an existing glyph (often ornamental) that is noncontextual Compare smart swash; To fall violently or noisily; (1) Same as UPRUSH (2) A body of dashing, splashing water (3) A BAR over which the OCEAN washes; act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner; A flourished letterform True italics are usually swash Some swash letters carry extra flourishes; others simply occupy an abnormally large ration of space Swash letters are usually cursive and swash typefaces therefore usually italic True italic capitals (as distinct from sloped roman capitals) are usually swash Hermann Zapf's Zapf Renaissance italic and Robert Slimbach's Poetica are faces in which the swash extends to the lower case; To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag; To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place; A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior; Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water; dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water"; An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work
swash letter: An ornamental italic letter with elaborate, flowing flourishes and tails
swash zone: The zone of WAVE action on the BEACH, which moves as WATER LEVELS vary, extending from the limit of run-down to the limit of RUN-UP See Figure 6
swash zone: n the area of a beach onto which water rushes up following the breaking of a wave
swash zone: The zone of wave action on the beach, which moves as water levels vary, extending from the limit of run-down to the limit of run-up
swashing: {a} huge, showy
swashing: Resounding; crushing
swashing: Swaggering; hectoring