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Rush
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
(3):
(v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
(4):
(v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
(5):
(n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
(6):
(n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
(7):
(v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
(8):
(v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
(9):
(n.) A perfect recitation.
(10):
(n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
(11):
(n.) The act of running with the ball.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rush'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rush.html. 1828.
