plash

A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.

And ſo than they of Bruges began to ſhote gonnes at thẽ. And than they of Gaũt diſcharged at ones thre .C. gonnes at one ſhotte: and ſo tourned a bout the plaſſhe of water and cauſed the ſon⸝ to be in the eyen of thẽ of Bruges⸝ the which greued them ſore: […]

Out of the vvound the redblood flovved freſh, / That vnderneath his feet ſoone made a purple pleſh.

A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.

One ſhip that Lycius did ſhrowd with faithful Orontes / In ſight of captayne was ſwaſht with a royſterus heapefloud. / Downe the pilot tumbleth with plaſh round ſummoned headlong, / Thriſe the grauel thumping in whirlpoole plunged, is hooule'd: […]

The mildew drops fell one by one, / With tinkling plash, upon the stone.

A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.

Penthouses five stories high, not so much for the protection of the people in the street as to keep the plash of heavy rain from the house windows, so that these might be the more safely open.

A splash of light on a surface.

The waterfall, scattering its vanishing gems; the tall grove of hemlocks, with moss on their stems, like plashes of sunlight; […]

To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.

When the halcyon is sporting far out on the seas, / In the beach's bright ripple thou plashest thy wings, / And tossest the spray from the shore-eddied rings.

To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.

to plash a wall in imitation of granite

To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.

Then, loa ye, from Tenedos through ſtanding deepe floud apeaſed^([sic – meaning appeared?]) / (I ſhiuer in telling) two ſerpents monſterus ouglie / Plaſht the water ſulcking to the ſhoare moſt haſtily ſwinging.

[U]nleſs they lay themſelves dovvn to be trampl'd under foot, plaſh'd like Mortar, or abjure their Religion, the ſame Calamities, the ſame Slaughters, hang over their Heads, […]

To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.

Thro thick and thin they ſcour'd about, / Plaſhin thro Dubs and Sykes, […]

At last, by hap, through some young trees it [a lance] struck, / And, plashing among bedded pebbles, stuck / In the middle of a brook,— […]

Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.

[T]he ſalt vvater plaſhes and froaths to ſee it ſelf ſo ſuddenly reſiſted: but the moiſt breath uſually vaporing in or upon the Seas makes it ſometimes turbulent.

The stream is so slender, that the gentlest breeze suffices to disturb its descent, and to scatter its pure sweet waters over the face of the cliff. But in that deep forest there is seldom a breath of wind; so that, plashing continually upon one spot, the fount has worn its own little channel of white sand, by which it finds its way to the river.