Word Meanings - UPGUSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gushing upward. Hawthorne.

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• 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
• GUSHINGLY
  , adv. 1. In a gushing manner; copiously. Byron. 2. Weakly; sentimentally; effusively.
• GUSHING
  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.
• GUSHER
  One who gushes.
• UPWARD; UPWARDS
  1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.
• UPWARD
  Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
• AGUSH
  In a gushing state. Hawthorne.
• OUTGUSH
  A pouring out; an outburst. A passionate outgush of emotion. Thackeray.
• UPGUSH
  A gushing upward. Hawthorne.