Word Meanings - GUSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

AS. geótan to pour, G. giessen, Goth. giutan, E. gut. Cf. Found to 1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. Ps ixxviii 20. A

Additional info about word: GUSH

AS. geótan to pour, G. giessen, Goth. giutan, E. gut. Cf. Found to 1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. Ps ixxviii 20. A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound. Spenser. 2. To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.

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• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• GUSH
  AS. geótan to pour, G. giessen, Goth. giutan, E. gut. Cf. Found to 1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. Ps ixxviii 20. A
• FORTHWARD
  Forward. Bp. Fisher.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• FORTHRIGHTNESS
  Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.
• ISSUER
  One who issues, emits, or publishes.
• RAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
• FLUID
  Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
• SMOTERLICH
  Dirty foul. Chaucer.
• GUSHINGLY
  , adv. 1. In a gushing manner; copiously. Byron. 2. Weakly; sentimentally; effusively.
• VIOLENCE
  1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. All the elements
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• SMOTE
  imp. of Smite.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• REISSUE
  To issue a second time.
• AGUSH
  In a gushing state. Hawthorne.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• INTERTISSUED
  Interwoven. Shak.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.