To rub or stroke with or on something, especially a soft cloth, for cleaning; clean or dry by gently rubbing, as with a towel.To remove by or as by gently rubbing with or on something, especially a cloth; hence, with away, off, or out, to remove, efface, or obliterate.Figuratively, to cleanse, as from evil practices or abuses; clear, as of disadvantage or superfluity.To cheat; defraud; trick.To stroke or strike gently; tap.To beat; chastise.In plumbing, to apply (solder) without the use of a soldering-iron, by allowing the solder to cool into a semi-fluid condition, and then applying it by wiping it over the part to be soldered by the use of a pad of leather or cloth. See wiping, 2.To make strokes with a rubbing or sweeping motion.n. The act or process of wiping clean or dry; a sweeping stroke of one thing over another; a rub; a brush.n. A quick or hard stroke; a blow, literally or figuratively; a cut: now regarded as slang.n. The mark of a blow or wound; a scar; a brand.n. Something used in wiping; specifically, a handkerchief.n. plural A fence of brushwood.n. Same as wiper, 3.n. Same as weep.