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Push
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.
(2):
(v. t.) To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; - opposed to draw.
(3):
(n.) The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.
(4):
(n.) An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.
(5):
(n.) Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.
(6):
(n.) A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.
(7):
(v. i.) To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.
(8):
(n.) A pustule; a pimple.
(9):
(v. i.) To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.
(10):
(v. t.) To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.
(11):
(v. t.) To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.
(12):
(v. t.) To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.
(13):
(v. t.) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
(14):
(n.) A crowd; a company or clique of associates; a gang.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Push'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/push.html. 1828.
