[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hush \hush\, v. i.
   to become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; --
   esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be
   silent or quiet; make no noise.
   1913 webster

         hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill.   --keble.
   1913 webster

         but all these strangers' presence every one did hush.
                                                  --spenser.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hush \hush\, n.
   stillness; silence; quiet. r. "it is the hush of night."
   --byron.
   1913 webster

   hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the
      disclosure of facts. --swift.
      1913 webster
see also:
hush money 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hush \hush\, a.
   silent; quiet. "hush as death." --shak.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hush \hush\ hu^sh, v. t. imp.  p. p. hushed hu^sht;
   p. pr.  vb. n. hushing. oe. huschen, hussen, prob. of
   imitative origin; cf. lg. hussen to lull to sleep, g. husch
   quick, make haste, be silent.
   1. to still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress
      the noise or clamor of.
      1913 webster

            my tongue shall hush again this storm of war.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
      1913 webster

            with thou, then,
            hush my cares?                        --otway.
      1913 webster

            and hush'd my deepest grief of all.   --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   to hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to
      keep secret. "this matter is hushed up." --pope.
      1913 webster
see also:
hushed hushing to hush up 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hush
     n : poetic tranquil silence; "the still of the night" syn: stillness,
          still
     v 1: become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my babay"
     2: cause to be quiet or not talk; "please silence the children
        in the church" syn: quieten, silence, still, shut
        up, hush up ant: louden
     3: become quiet or quieter; "the audience fell silent when the
        speaker entered" syn: quieten, quiet, quiesce, quiet
        down, pipe down ant: louden
     4: wash by removing particles; "wash ores"
     5: run water over the ground to erode soil, revealing the
        underlying strata and valuable minerals
see also:
stillness still quieten silence shut up hush up 
louden quiet quiesce quiet down pipe down 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

152 moby thesaurus words for "hush":
   allay, appease, assibilate, assibilation, awful silence, black out,
   buzz, calm, calm down, censor, choke, choke off, compose, conceal,
   cool, cover up, cradle, dead, dead of night, deathlike silence,
   dulcify, dumbfound, ease, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing,
   even out, fall silent, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication,
   frictional rustling, gag, gentle, golden silence, hide, hiss,
   hissing, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, hush of night, hush up,
   hush-hush, hushing, inaudibility, keep quiet, kill, lisp,
   lucid stillness, lull, mollify, muffle, mum, mute, muzzle,
   noiseless, noiselessness, pacify, peace, pipe down, placate,
   pour balm into, put to silence, quash, quell, quiesce, quiescence,
   quiet, quiet down, quieten, quietness, quietude, repress, rest,
   rhonchus, rock, rock to sleep, secretiveness, secretness, shush,
   shushing, shut down on, shut up, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation,
   siffle, sigmatism, silence, silent, silentness, siss, sissing,
   sit on, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, smooth, smooth down, smooth over,
   smoothen, smother, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort,
   snuff, snuffle, soft-pedal, soften, solemn silence, soothe,
   soundless, soundlessness, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch,
   squish, stabilize, steady, sternutation, stertor, stifle, still,
   stillness, stilly, strike dumb, subdue, suppress, swish, tacitness,
   taciturnity, throttle, tomblike silence, tranquilize, tranquillity,
   wheeze, whish, whisht, whisper, whist, whistle, whistling,
   white noise, whiz, whoosh, zip

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