Rush , n.
1. A moving
forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as,
a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of
water. A
gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the
duke. Sir H. Wotton. 2. Great activity with pressure; as, a rush
of business.
[Colloq.] 3. A perfect recitation.
[College Cant, U.S.] 4. (Football) (a)
A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the
rush line; the end rush. (b)
The act of running with the ball. Bunt rush (Football),
a combined rush by main
strength. -- Rush
line (Football),
the line composed of rushers.
Rush , v. t. 1. To
push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward. 2. To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error. [College Cant, U.S.]
Rush (rŭsh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rushed (rŭsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Rushing.] [OE. ruschen; cf.
AS. hryscan to make a noise,
D. ruischen to rustle, G. rauschen, MHG.
rūschen to rush, to rustle, LG. rusken, OSw. ruska, Icel. &
Sw. ruska to shake, Dan. ruske to shake, and E.
rouse.] 1. To move forward with impetuosity, violence,
and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice. Like to an
entered tide, they all rush by. Shak. 2.
To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation. They . . . never think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers. Sprat.
Rush (?), n. [OE.
rusche, rische, resche, AS.
risce, akin to LG. rusk, risch, D. & G. rusch; all probably fr. L. ruscum butcher's broom; akin to Goth. raus reed, G. rohr.]
1. (Bot.) A name given
to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous
plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and
Scirpus. &fist; Some species are used in bottoming chairs and plaiting mats, and the pith is
used in some places for wicks to lamps and rushlights. 2. The merest trifle; a straw. John Bull's friendship is not worth a
rush. Arbuthnot.
Bog rush. See under Bog. -- Club rush, any rush of the genus Scirpus. -- Flowering rush. See under Flowering. -- Nut
rush (a)
Any plant of the genus
Scleria, rushlike plants with hard nutlike fruits.
(b) A name for several species of Cyperus having tuberous roots.
-- Rush broom, an Australian leguminous plant
(Viminaria denudata), having long, slender branches. Also, the Spanish broom. See under Spanish. -- Rush candle, See under Candle. --
Rush grass, any grass of
the genus Vilfa, grasses
with wiry stems and one-flowered spikelets. --
Rush toad (Zoöl.), the natterjack. -- Scouring rush. (Bot.) Same as Dutch rush, under Dutch. -- Spike rush, any rushlike plant of the
genus Eleocharis, in which the flowers grow in dense
spikes. -- Sweet rush, a sweet-scented grass of Arabia, etc. (Andropogon
schœnanthus), used in
Oriental medical practice. -- Wood rush, any plant of the
genus Luzula, which
differs in some technical characters from
Juncus.
Quotes From Classical Literature on 'rush'You can hear pronunciation of the quotes if you click on  . The sound files tend to be pretty big.
 relapse after death into the formlessness which preceded life, the
change, the revolt from that change, then the correcting, hallowing,
consoling rush of pity; at last, far off, thin and vague, yet not more
vague than the most definite thoughts men have had through three
centuries on a matter that has been so near their hearts, the new
body-- a passing light, a mere intangible, external effect, over those
too rigid, or too formless faces; a dream that lingers a moment,
retreating in the dawn, incomplete, aimless, helpless; a thing with
The shortness of time, in which they are to reap the profits of
iniquity, is far from checking the avidity of corrupt men; it
renders them infinitely more ravenous. They rush violently and
precipitately on their object, they lose all regard to decorum. The
moments of profit are precious; never are men so wicked as during a
general mortality. It was so in the great plague at Athens, every
symptom of which ( and this its worst amongst the rest) is so finely
related by a great historian of antiquity. It was so in the plague
Then I drew back quickly: there came a cheer,
A rush of figures, a noise and tussle,
And then it was over, and high and clear
My red rose bloomed on his gun' s black muzzle.
Then far in the darkness a sharp voice cried,
And slowly and steadily, all together,
Shoulder to shoulder and side to side,
" My God! what' s that?"
I started forward. There was a general crowding rush , and a darkly
tanned and bearded man came on board, carrying a brown leather case.
Behind him surged those who bore the victim.
" It' s one of the lascars!"
stroke of apoplexy; " sank suddenly motionless, one day," and sat
insensible, perhaps for half an hour: to the terror and horror of
those about him. Hemiplegia, he calls it; rush of blood to the
head;-- probably indigestion, or gouty humors, exasperated by over-
fatigue. Which occasioned great rumor in the world; and at Paris,
to Voltaire' s horror, reports of his death. He himself made light
of the matter: [ To Voltaire, 22d February, 1747 ( OEuvres
de Frederic, xxii. 164); see IB. 164 n.] and it did
that, if they suffered less than death, they would be reconciled,
but, rather, adding new rage to their former wickedness, they
would rush into every kind of audacity, while he himself, whose
character for courage already did not stand very high with the
multitude, would be thought guilty of the greatest cowardice and
want of manliness.
While Cicero was in doubt what course to take, a portent happened
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