husht

Adjective

hushed (comparative more hushed, superlative most hushed)

1. Very quiet; expressed using soft tones.
   • So awe-inspiring was the sight that we spoke only in hushed whispers.

Verb (1)

hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)

1. (intransitive) To become quiet.
2. (transitive) To make quiet.
3. (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
   • VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 11

Verb (2)

hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) To rush, to gush.
   • On the fluir, bluid an punch now hush't leyke a stream, […]1840, Anderson, Ballads, page 96, quoted in the EDD
2. (intransitive, transitive) 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 […]1750, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (XLVI), page 364

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