HUSH

hush, stillness, still

(noun) (poetic) tranquil silence; “the still of the night”

hush

(verb) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals

hush

(verb) wash by removing particles; “Wash ores”

hush

(verb) become quiet or still; fall silent; “hush my baby!”

hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up

(verb) cause to be quiet or not talk; “Please silence the children in the church!”

quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down

(verb) become quiet or quieter; “The audience fell silent when the speaker entered”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

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

(intransitive) To become quiet.

(transitive) To make quiet.

(transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.

(transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.

Noun

hush (uncountable)

A silence, especially after some noise

A mining method using water

Anagrams

• Huhs

Source: Wiktionary

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Hush, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hushed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hushing.] Etym: [OE. huschen, hussen, prob. of imitative origin; cf. LG. hussen to lull to sleep, G. husch quick, make haste, be silent.]

1. To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of. My tongue shall hush again this storm of war. Shak.

2. To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. With thou, then, Hush my cares Otway. And hush'd my deepest grief of all. Tennyson. To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." Pope.

Hush, v. i.

Definition: To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise. Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill. Keble. But all these strangers' presence every one did hush. Spenser.

Hush, n.

Definition: Stillness; silence; quiet. [R.] "It is the hush of night." Byron. Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. Swift.

Hush, a.

Definition: Silent; quiet. "Hush as death." Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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