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Wipe   /waɪp/   Listen
verb
Wipe  v. t.  (past & past part. wiped; pres. part. wiping)  
1.
To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel. "Let me wipe thy face." "I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down."
2.
To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively. "To wipe out our ingratitude." "Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon."
3.
To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out. (Obs.) "If they by coveyne (covin) or gile be wiped beside their goods."
To wipe a joint (Plumbing), to make a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe, by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
To wipe the nose of, to cheat. (Old Slang)


noun
Wipe  n.  (Zool.) The lapwing. (Prov. Eng.)


Wipe  n.  
1.
Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
2.
A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe. (Low)
3.
A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
4.
A handkerchief. (Thieves' Cant or Slang)
5.
Stain; brand. (Obs.) "Slavish wipe."





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"Wipe" Quotes from Famous Books



... my fighting-blood rising, and I swear with a mighty wordless oath that I'll be avenged for that laugh. "The day is young yet. If, before night, I don't wipe both your eyes, and wipe ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... her eyes; "yes, that is the word—it is a victory—no other word expresses it. Come, Aunt Roxy, we will go home. I am not afraid now to tell grandpapa and grandmamma. God will care for them; He will wipe away ...
— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... and skin, melt it in water before a moderate fire, let it cool till it forms into a hard cake, then wipe it dry, and put it in clean paper in ...
— The American Frugal Housewife • Lydia M. Child
... to enable her to propitiate offended Heaven. The virtuous and holy man, shocked at the infirmity and want of propriety exhibited by the unfortunate girl, was very severe in his censures, and informed her that there was no way left for her but by penance and mortification to endeavour to wipe away her sin. He condemned her, therefore, to take up her abode in that solitary cottage, far away from all human habitation, to spend her life in prayer and lamentation, and to endeavour, by voluntary affliction, to win her ...
— Barn and the Pyrenees - A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre • Louisa Stuart Costello
... lass?" he called, as he halted to wipe his red face with a huge bandana. "It's too hot to run the way ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey


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