washen, ppl. a. arch. and dial.
(ˈwɒʃ(ə)n)
[str. pa. pple. of wash v.]
Washed. Also with adv. prefixed, as clean-washen, ill-washen, new-washen, well-washen.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 415/1 Weschyn, lotus. 1525–34 Fitzherb. Husb. §122 Laye a clene washen shete vppon the stole. 1594 A. Hume Poems etc. (S.T.S.) 101 Til eit meat with weschen or vnweschen hands. 1617 Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1848) II. 350 With goode bedding, weele washine and weele smellit naprie. 1637 Rutherford Let. to Ld. Craighall 10 Aug., Some ill-washen and foul distinctions. 1868 H. Law Beacons of Bible (1869) 89 The washen swine returning to the mire. 1870 Bryant Iliad i. 563 With washen hands They took the salted meal. 1879 Butcher & Lang Odyss. vi. 64. 94 These are always eager for new-washen garments wherein to go to the dances. |
† b. washen leather = wash-leather. Obs.
Cf. washed leather, washed 1 h.
| c 1425 York Memo. Bk. (Surtees) I. 65 For a dossan wesshyn leddyr. |