hush
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hush¹
- /hʌʃ/
- /hʊʃ/
Rhymes with -ʌʃ
Where it comes from
From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht.
verb hushes · hushing · hushed
- To become quiet.
- To make quiet.
- To appease; to allay; to soothe. VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?
noun hushes
- A silence, especially after some noise. It is the hush of night.
hush²
- /hʌʃ/
- /hʊʃ/
Rhymes with -ʌʃ
Where it comes from
Unclear; possibly onomatopoeic.
verb hushes · hushing · hushed
- To rush, to gush. On the fluir, bluid an punch now hush't leyke a stream, […]
- To send forth a rush of water over (some ground) so as to clear off the soil and other materials overlying, and thus uncover or separate out, ore. […] worn its Chanel so deep in some Part of its Course as to work upon some mineral Substance, which gives it the Colour of Water hushed from Lead-mines, and is so strong as to tinge the River Derwent […]
noun hushes
- Water which has been used to clear the soil off of some (area of) rock or ore. […] the hush from the lead mines on the moors near that place enters the Arkle, and the stream below suffers materially, the fishing being of little good;
- A part of a mine or quarry where ore is to be, or has been, excavated by an artificial flow of water. […] lead ore occurs abundantly in the upper crust of the earth, and this phrase would have been quite applicable to the early finds of shoad-stones of lead ore in Weardale, to the importance of which the scars of the "hushes" that still furrow the fell-sides bear conclusive evidence.
