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Mash   /mæʃ/   Listen
Mash

noun
1.
A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing.
2.
Mixture of ground animal feeds.
verb
(past & past part. mashed; pres. part. mashing)
1.
To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition.  Synonyms: crush, squash, squeeze, squelch.  "Squeeze a lemon"
2.
Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions.  Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance.  "My husband never flirts with other women"
3.
Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.  Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, grind.  "Mash the garlic"



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"Mash" Quotes from Famous Books



... whole must be brought slowly to the boiling point; then, the temperature lowered, the fat and scum taken off. When wanted for clear soups the vegetables should be cleaned, but not cut up, or with the long cooking they may mash and thicken the soup. In hot weather it is better to leave out the vegetables, as the stock turns sour more quickly if vegetables have been used in its preparation. They can be cooked separately and added when ...
— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil
... was part of their joke that Dan's coming to him always meant something decisive in his experiences. The reporter was at his late breakfast, which his landlady furnished him in his room, though, as Mrs. Mash said, she never gave meals, but a cup of coffee and an ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... I went to the man (one Mash) who used to black the shoes of the family, and asked his wife to get somebody to go with me to Hatton Garden to the Moravian Missionaries: these were the only persons I knew in England. The woman sent a young girl with me to the mission house, ...
— The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave • Mary Prince
... L. E. D.—Tobacco is sometimes used externally in unguents for destroying cutaneous insects, cleansing old ulcers, &c. Beaten into a mash with vinegar or brandy, it has sometimes proved serviceable for removing hard tumours of ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury
... or wood or wilderness. Just a moment; it goes; as, when a well-attuned barrel-organ in a street has drawn us to recollections of the Opera or Italy, another harshly crashes, and the postman knocks at doors, and perchance a costermonger cries his mash of fruit, a beggar woman wails her hymn. For the pinched are here, the dinnerless, the weedy, the gutter-growths, the forces repressing them. That grand tongue of the giant City inspires none human to Bardic eulogy while we let those discords be. An embittered Muse of Reason prompts her victims ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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