Word Meanings - GUSHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood." Milton. 2. Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental.

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• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• RUSHED
  Abounding or covered with rushes.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• 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.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• AGUSH
  In a gushing state. Hawthorne.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• INRUSH
  A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide. G. Eliot.