hush

suomi-englanti sanakirja

hush englannista suomeksi

1. hiljaisuus

2. huuhtoa

3. laantua

4. hiljentyä

5. hyssytellä

1. hyssytellä, vaientaa

2. hiljaisuus

2. Verbi

hush englanniksi

1. To become quiet.

2. To make quiet.

3. To appease; to allay; to soothe.

4. (RQ:Otway Venice Preserv'd)

5. (RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam)

6. A silence, especially after some noise.

7. (RQ:Byron Childe Harold)

8. {{RQ:Dunsany Pegana

9. To rush, to gush.

10. 1840, Anderson, ''Ballads'', page 96, quoted in the ''EDD'':

On the fluir, bluid an punch now hush't leyke a stream, (..)

11. 1867, David M. Moir, ''The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith'', page 97:

(..) water, far down below, roaring and hushing over the rocks, (..)

12. To 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.

13. 1750, ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London'' (XLVI), page 364:

(..) 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 (..)

14. 1886, William Morley Egglestone , ''Weardale Names'', page 73:

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.

15. 1887 October 28, ''North Star'', quoted in the ''NED'':

He had promised ... that he would have a stop put to the hushing process.

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

17. 1851, Tom Bradley, ''The Yorkshire Anglers' Guide to the Whole of the Fishing on ...'', page 6:

(..) 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;

18. 1879, ''Annual Report of the Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries (England and Wales)'', page 89:

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. (..)

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

20. 1917, ''The Mining Magazine'', volume 16, page 19:

(..) 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.

21. 1965, Arthur Raistrick, ''A History of Lead Mining in the Pennines'', page 159:

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 (..)

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24. quiet