hushとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht.

動詞

hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)

1. (intransitive) To become quiet.
2. (transitive) To make quiet.
3. (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
   • 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 11:

     VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 32:

     And hush’d my deepest grief of all.

派生語

名詞

hush (countable and uncountable, plural hushes)

1. A silence, especially after some noise.
   • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXXVI:

     It is the hush of night.

   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:

     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.

派生語

語源 2

Unclear; possibly onomatopoeic.

動詞

hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)

1. (chiefly Northern England and Scotland) To rush, to gush.
   • 1840, Anderson, Ballads, page 96, quoted in the EDD:

     On the fluir, bluid an punch now hush't leyke a stream, […]

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

     […] water, far down below, roaring and hushing over the rocks, […]

2. (transitive, intransitive, mining) 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.
   • 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 […]

   • 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.

   • 1887 October 28, North Star, quoted in the NED:

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

名詞

hush (plural hushes)

1. (mining) Water which has been used to clear the soil off of some (area of) rock or ore.
   • 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;

   • 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. […]

2. (mining) A part of a mine or quarry where ore is to be, or has been, excavated by an artificial flow of water.
   • 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.

   • 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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