Gush

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Gush - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

GUSH, v.i.

1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; as, blood gushes from a vein in venesection.

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out. Psa 78.

2. To flow copiously. Tears gushed from her eyes.

GUSH, v.t. To emit in copious effusion.

The gaping wound gushed out a crimson flood. [Unusual.]

GUSH, n. A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed place; an emission of liquor in a large quantity and with force; the fluid thus emitted.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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