wip'd

Such things are easier prevented than wip'd off when they are done.

Letter 69 2009

I then steep'd it in my own — and then in hers — and then in mine — and then I wip'd hers again — and as I did it, I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion.

Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos 2005

He wip'd his face, and "if you knew," said he, "what has happened to me --" "As what?" quoth I.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Then the confusion I was in, my disfigur'd face, with the equal baldness of my head and eye-brows, gave a ridiculous air to everything I said or did; but when they wip'd us with a wet spunge, the letters melting into one, spread o'er our faces such a sooty cloud that turn'd Lycas's rage to a perfect loathing.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Then, finding none to take up her challenge, she strode out through the folk, and I after her, with the mirror in my hand; while the Cheap Jack picked himself out of the tub, whining, and the Astrologer wip'd his long white beard and soil'd robe.

The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Scipio, the father-in-law of Pompey the Great, in dying well, wip'd away the ill opinion that till then every one had conceived of him.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I Various 1885

Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon;

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

She said; and wip'd the ichor from, the wound; he hand was heal'd, the grievous pains allay'd.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834

Ben wip'd away a manly tear — To thee, my honour'd, worthy friend,

Tom's Triumph Anonymous 1805

Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon;

Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804