lash
/læʃ/ noun C1- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment. · The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- Flowering plants of genus Blepharis.
- A quantity, a great number or amount (e.g. of rain or milk).
Plural lashes
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: “If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.”
Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one’s self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power.
The Sea, assuming the form of a woman, replied to him: “Blame not me, my good sir, but the winds, for I am by my own nature as calm and firm even as this earth; but the winds suddenly falling on me create these waves, and lash me into fury.”
When the cobra runs for her life, she goes like a whip-lash flicked across a horse’s neck.
Other matches
- lash To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so ... C2
- lash To strike with a lash C2
- lash Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional C2
- lash Soft, watery, wet. C2
- lash back Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- lash down To secure with ropes
- lash off To lash out verbally
- lash out To make a sudden violent attack.
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