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noun

Hush n. Stillness; silence; quiet. (R.) "It is the hush of night."

Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts.

verb

Hush v. t. (past & past part. hushed; pres. part. hushing)

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."

To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. "With thou, then, Hush my cares?" "And hush'd my deepest grief of all."

To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up."

Hush v. i. 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." "But all these strangers' presence every one did hush."

adjective

Hush adj. Silent; quiet. "Hush as death."

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Etymology of 'Hush'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hush" Quotes from Famous Books

... but hover over her head in the air, For she has only minutes. When she signed Her heart began to break. Hush, hush, I hear The brazen door of Hell move on its hinges, And the eternal revelry float hither ...

— The Countess Cathleen • William Butler Yeats

... the wharf path, and Barry stepped into the side trail. The sailor had not covered twenty feet, shivering involuntarily at the uncanny hush of the jungle, when he heard a faint rustling behind him. Before he could turn, a queer whirr whistled in the air, followed swiftly by a hollow thudding sound as of an ax biting into a rotten log. Then an unearthly shriek rang out that ...

— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle

... grave, in the solemn hush of night, the priest murmured: "I am the resurrection and the life." But the mound upon which Rosendo was stolidly heaping the loose earth marked only another victory of the mortal law of death over a human sense of life. And there was no ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... without noise, like little Pilgrims. . . God bless such children, and increase their numbers! It might have been the approach of Sunday—if Sunday is still regarded in eastern Massachusetts—that caused this hush, for it was now towards sunset on Saturday, and the inhabitants were washing the fronts of the houses with the hose, showing how cleanliness is ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... out-house. Now and then they could faintly hear the sound of his moving jaws, Lucrezia's laughter, or Gaspare's eager voice. These fragmentary noises scarcely disturbed the great silence that lay about them, the night hush of the mountains and the sea. Hermione sat down on the seat in the terrace wall looking over the ravine. It was a moonless night, but the sky was clear and spangled with stars. There was a cool breeze blowing ...

— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens

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