lash

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A stroke or blow with or as if with a whip.
2. n. A whip.
3. n. The flexible portion of a whip, such as a plait or thong.
4. n. Punishment administered with a whip.
5. n. A lacerating presence or power: the lash of conscience.
6. n. A caustic verbal attack.
7. n. An eyelash.
8. v. To strike with or as if with a whip.
9. v. To strike against with force or violence: sleet lashing the roof.
10. v. To beat or swing rapidly: The alligator lashed its tail in the water.
11. v. To make a scathing oral or written attack against.
12. v. To drive or goad; sting: words that lashed them into action.
13. v. To move swiftly or violently; thrash: heard the snake lashing about in the leaves.
14. v. To aim a sudden blow; strike: The mule lashed out with its hind legs.
15. v. To beat; flail: waves lashing at the shore.
16. v. To make a scathing verbal or written attack. Often used with out: lashed out at her critics during the interview.
17. v. To secure or bind, as with a rope, cord, or chain.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The flexible part of a whip, usually a cord of braided strips of leather; hence, anything flexible used for flogging; a whip; a scourge: as, to lay on the lash; punishment by the lash.
2. n. A stroke with a whip or anything pliant and tough; hence, a stroke of satire; a sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain.
3. n. A beating or dashing, as of wind or water; a fluctuating impact.
4. n. In weaving, same as leash, 3.
5. n. An eyelash.
6. To strike with a lash, whip, scourge, or other pliant thing, as a thong, rope, etc.; whip; scourge; flog; subject to the lash as a punishment.
7. To satirize; censure with severity.
8. To fling or throw recklessly or at random: with out or up.
9. To spend recklessly.
10. To beat or dash against.
11. To comb (the hair).
12. To tie or bind with a rope or cord; secure or fasten, as by cordage: as, to lash anything to a mast or to a yard; to lash a trunk on a coach.
13. To ply the whip; strike (at something); aim sarcasms; hit out.
14. To strike or break out; burst up or out, as a wave or flame.
15. To strike out; plunge.
16. To break out or plunge recklessly.
17. Slack; slow; sluggish; inactive.
18. Lax; loose; soft; hence, watery or insipid.
19. Moist and cold, as the weather.
20. n. A sort of soft leather.

Wiktionary

1. n. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
2. n. obsolete A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
3. n. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
4. n. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
5. n. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
6. n. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
7. v. transitive To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
8. v. transitive To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
9. v. transitive To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
10. v. transitive To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
11. v. transitive To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
12. v. intransitive To ply the whip; to strike.
13. v. intransitive To utter censure or sarcastic language.
14. v. intransitive To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down
15. adj. obsolete Remiss, lax.
16. adj. obsolete Relaxed.
17. adj. Soft, watery, wet.
18. adj. Mid-Ulster, Northern Ireland excellent, wonderful
19. adj. Drunk.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
2. n. obsolete A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
3. n. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
4. n. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
5. n. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
6. n. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
7. v. To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
8. v. To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
9. v. To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
10. v. To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
11. v. To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.
12. v. To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten

WordNet 3.0

1. v. bind with a rope, chain, or cord
2. v. beat severely with a whip or rod
3. n. any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
4. v. lash or flick about sharply
5. n. a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
6. v. strike as if by whipping
7. n. leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip