hushverb詞源 1/hʌʃ/

• 1

  To become quiet.

• 2

  To make quiet.

• 3

  To appease; to allay; to soothe.

  • VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?
  • And hush’d my deepest grief of all.

hushnoun詞源 1/hʌʃ/

• 1

  A silence, especially after some noise.

  • It is the hush of night.
  • And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that Māna rested, and there was silence on Pegāna save for the drumming of Skarl.

hushverb詞源 2/hʌʃ/

• 1

  To rush, to gush.

  • On the fluir, bluid an punch now hush't leyke a stream, […]
  • […] water, far down below, roaring and hushing over the rocks, […]
• 2

  businessminingTo 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 […]
  • The earliest method of searching for lead ore was by collecting the water in dams and hushing the surface of the ground where metalliferous veins existed.

hushnoun詞源 2/hʌʃ/

• 1

  businessminingWater which has been used to clear the soil off of some (area of) rock or ore.

  • […] the hush from the lead mines on the moors near that place enters the Arkle, and the stream below suffers materially, the fishing being of little good;
  • The great cause of the scarcity of fish in this river is without doubt the "hush" coming down from the lead mines in the upper waters. […]
• 2

  businessminingA part of a mine or quarry where ore is to be, or has been, excavated by an artificial flow of water.

  • […] lead ore occurs abundantly in the upper crust of the earth, and this phrase would have been quite applicable to the early finds of shoad-stones of lead ore in Weardale, to the importance of which the scars of the "hushes" that still furrow the fell-sides bear conclusive evidence.
  • After the first hush miners loosened the rock in the floor of the hush with picks and crow bars [...] a torrent of water was sent down which swept and tore the loosened stuff over the grate, trapping much of the ore that was being moved. In this method a hush could be used for over a century and could grow […]