Hush , a. Silent; quiet. "Hush as death." Shak.
Hush , n. 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 , 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.
Keble. But all these strangers' presence every one did hush.
Spenser.
Hush (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hushed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hushing.]
[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.
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