English

Verb

washen

1. (archaic) Alternative past participle of wash.
   • (Can we date this quote?), John Splendid, The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

     I've had my chance of common life, city and town, and the company of ladies with broidery and camisole and washen faces

   • (Can we date this quote?), The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

     Are ye made clean and washen from the guilt of your sins?

Adjective

washen ‎(comparative more washen, superlative most washen)

1. (archaic) clean
   • 1926, Sir Robert Chalmers, “Further dialogues of the Buddha”, in Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica, volume 1, number 44-45:

     He becomes washen by washing away evil and wrong states.

   • 1975, Neil Miller Gunn, Morning tide:

     Morag put on a third petticoat, of a more washen red than the second, but this one would not fix without its safety-pin.

Antonyms

• unwashen

Anagrams

• whenas