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

rush \rush\ ru^sh, v. i. imp.  p. p. rushed ru^sht;
   p. pr.  vb. n. rushing. oe. ruschen; cf. as. hryscan to
   make a noise, d. ruischen to rustle, g. rauschen, mhg.
   r=uschen to rush, to rustle, lg. rusken, osw. ruska, icel.
    sw. ruska to shake, dan. ruske to shake, and e. rouse.
   1. to move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous
      rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush
      down a precipice.
      1913 webster

            like to an entered tide, they all rush by. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or
      without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush
      business or speculation.
      1913 webster

            they . . . never think it to be a part of religion
            to rush into the office of princes and ministers.
                                                  --sprat.
      1913 webster
see also:
rushed rushing 

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

rush \rush\, n. oe. rusche, rische, resche, as. risce, akin to
   lg. rusk, risch, d.  g. rusch; all probably fr. l. ruscum
   butcher's broom; akin to goth. raus reed, g. rohr.
   1. bot. a name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing
      endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species
      of juncus and scirpus.
      1913 webster

   note: some species are used in bottoming chairs and plaiting
         mats, and the pith is used in some places for wicks to
         lamps and rushlights.
         1913 webster

   2. the merest trifle; a straw.
      1913 webster

            john bull's friendship is not worth a rush.
                                                  --arbuthnot.
      1913 webster

   bog rush. see under bog.

   club rush, any rush of the genus scirpus.

   flowering rush. see under flowering.

   nut rush
      a any plant of the genus scleria, rushlike plants with
          hard nutlike fruits.
      b a name for several species of cyperus having
          tuberous roots.

   rush broom, an australian leguminous plant viminaria
      denudata, having long, slender branches. also, the
      spanish broom. see under spanish.

   rush candle, see under candle.

   rush grass, any grass of the genus vilfa, grasses with
      wiry stems and one-flowered spikelets.

   rush toad zool., the natterjack.

   scouring rush. bot. same as dutch rush, under dutch.
      

   spike rush, any rushlike plant of the genus eleocharis,
      in which the flowers grow in dense spikes.

   sweet rush, a sweet-scented grass of arabia, etc.
      andropogon schoenanthus, used in oriental medical
      practice.

   wood rush, any plant of the genus luzula, which differs
      in some technical characters from juncus.
      1913 webster
see also:
juncus scirpus bog rush bog club rush flowering rush 
flowering nut rush scleria cyperus rush broom 
viminaria denudata spanish rush candle candle rush grass 
vilfa rush toad scouring rush dutch rush dutch. 
spike rush eleocharis sweet rush andropogon schoenanthus wood rush 
luzula 

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

rush \rush\, v. t.
   1. to push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to
      hurry forward.
      1913 webster

   2. to recite a lesson or pass an examination without an
      error. college cant, u.s.
      1913 webster

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

rush \rush\, n.
   1. a moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a
      violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of
      winds; a rush of water.
      1913 webster

            a gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and,
            with a violent rush, severed him from the duke.
                                                  --sir h.
                                                  wotton.
      1913 webster

   2. great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
      colloq.
      1913 webster

   3. a perfect recitation. college cant, u.s.
      1913 webster

   4. football
      a a rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the
          center of the rush line; the end rush.
          1913 webster

   bunt rush football, a combined rush by main strength.

   rush line football, the line composed of rushers.
      1913 webster
see also:
bunt rush rush line 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rush
     adj 1: not accepting reservations syn: first-come-first-servep
     2: done under pressure; "a rush job" syn: rusha, rushed
     n 1: the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in
          his haste to leave he forgot his book" syn: haste, hurry,
           rushing
     2: a sudden forceful flow syn: spate, surge, upsurge
     3: grasslike plants growing in wet places and having
        cylindrical often hollow stems
     4: physician and revolutionary american leader; signer of the
        declaration of independence 1745-1813 syn: benjamin
        rush
     5: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a
        great bang out of it"; "what a boot"; "he got a quick
        rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" syn:
        bang, boot, charge, flush, thrill, kick
     6: a sudden burst of activity; "come back after the rush"
     7: american football an attempt to advance the ball by
        running into the line; "the linebackers were ready to stop
        a rush" syn: rushing
     v 1: step on it; "he rushed down the hall to receive his guests";
          "the cars raced down the street" syn: hotfoot, hasten,
           hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball
          along, bucket along, belt along ant: linger
     2: attack suddenly
     3: urge to an unnatural speed; "don't rush me, please" syn: hurry
        ant: delay
     4: act or move at high speed; "we have to rush"; "hurry--it's
        late" syn: hasten, hurry, look sharp, festinate
     5: run with the ball, in football
     6: cause to move fast or to rush or race; "the psychologist
        raced the rats through a long maze" syn: race
     7: cause to occur rapidly; "the infection precipitated a high
        fever and allergic reactions" syn: induce, stimulate,
         hasten
see also:
first-come-first-servep rusha rushed haste hurry rushing 
spate surge upsurge benjamin rush bang 
boot charge flush thrill kick 
hotfoot hasten hie speed race 
pelt along rush along cannonball along bucket along belt along 
linger delay look sharp festinate induce 
stimulate 

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

443 moby thesaurus words for "rush":
   brownian movement, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot,
   accelerate, ado, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aftergrass,
   aggravated assault, aggression, air speed, amphibious attack,
   angular motion, armed assault, ascending, ascent, assailing,
   assailment, assault, attack, axial motion, backflowing, backing,
   backward motion, bagatelle, bamboo, bang, banzai attack, bauble,
   bean, belch, bibelot, bit, blackmail, blitz, blitzkrieg, boil,
   bolt, boot, brass farthing, break, breakthrough, bundle, burst,
   burst of speed, bustle, button, buzz about, call, call for, cane,
   canter, career, cascade, celerity, cent, cereal, cereal plant,
   charge, chase, claim, climbing, commotion, concourse, confluence,
   conflux, contribution, corn, counterattack, counteroffensive,
   coup de main, course, crippling attack, crosscurrent, crowd, curio,
   current, dart, dash, dash at, dash off, dash on, dead run,
   dead set at, debouchment, defluxion, demand, demand for,
   descending, descent, descent on, dispatch, dissiliency, diversion,
   diversionary attack, dogtrot, double-time, downflow, downpour,
   downward motion, draft, drain, drift, driftage, drive, drive on,
   duty, ebb, ebbing, emergency, eructation, eruption, exaction,
   excitement, exigent, expedite, expedition, extortion,
   extortionate demand, farce, farinaceous plant, farthing, fastness,
   feather, ferment, festinate, fig, flank attack, flank speed,
   flare-up, flat-out speed, fleabite, fleet, flight, fling, flit,
   flood, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flowing, fluency,
   flurry, flush, flutter, flux, fly, fly at, fog, folderol, font,
   forage grass, forced draft, forward, forward motion, forwardness,
   fount, fountain, fribble, frippery, frontal attack, full gallop,
   fuss, gallop, gas attack, gaud, get cracking, get going,
   get moving, gewgaw, geyser, gimcrack, go off half-cocked, grain,
   graminaceous plant, grass, ground speed, gush, hair, halfpenny,
   hand gallop, harum-scarum, haste, hasten, hasten on, hastiness,
   head-on attack, headlong rush, heavy demand, heavy right foot,
   helter-skelter, hie, hie on, high lope, high-priority,
   hill of beans, hump, hump it, hurriedness, hurry, hurry about,
   hurry along, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry,
   hurtle, hustle, hustle up, imposition, impost, impulse,
   impulsiveness, indent, infiltration, inflow, insistent demand,
   instantaneousness, issue, jest, jet, jog trot, joke, jollies, jump,
   jump off, kick, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knots, lash,
   lawn grass, leap, levy, lift, lightning attack, lightning speed,
   lightning war, lope, lose no time, make, make a fuss, make haste,
   mass attack, maximum speed, megadeath, miles per hour, mill run,
   millrace, minikin, mockery, molehill, mounting, move quickly,
   mugging, nonnegotiable demand, notice, oblique motion, offense,
   offensive, ongoing, onrush, onset, onslaught, onward course,
   open throttle, order, ornamental grass, outbreak, outburst,
   outflow, overhastiness, overkill, panzer warfare, passage,
   pell-mell, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick,
   plunge, plunging, post, pother, pour, precipitance, precipitancy,
   precipitate, precipitateness, precipitation, precociousness,
   precocity, prematureness, prematurity, press, press on, progress,
   promptitude, promptness, push, push on, push through, quicken,
   quickness, quiver, race, radial motion, railroad through,
   random motion, rap, rapidity, rapids, red cent, reed, reflowing,
   refluence, reflux, regression, regurgitate, requirement,
   requisition, retrogression, rising, round pace, row of pins, rpm,
   run, run against, run at, rush about, rush along, rush around,
   rush at, rush of emotion, rush order, rush through, sally, scamper,
   scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, sensation, set,
   shake a leg, shit, shiver, shock tactics, shoot, shudder,
   sideward motion, sinking, skedaddle, snap, snappiness, sneeshing,
   soaring, sortie, sou, spate, speed, speed along, speed up,
   speediness, spew, spit, spout, spouter, spray, sprint, spritz,
   spurt, spurtle, squirt, stampede, step on it, sternway, storm,
   straw, stream, strike, subsiding, surge, surge back,
   surge of emotion, swift rate, swiftness, tax, taxing, tear,
   tear around, thrill, tide, tilt at, tingle, tingling, titillation,
   to-do, torrent, toy, traject, trajet, tremor, tremor of excitement,
   trend, tribute, trifle, trinket, triviality, trot, tuppence,
   turbulence, turmoil, two cents, twopence, ultimatum, undercurrent,
   undertow, unprovoked assault, untimeliness, upward motion, urge,
   urgent, velocity, volcan, warning, water flow, whim-wham, whip,
   whip along, whiz, whiz about, wide-open speed

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

rush
     
        1.  an interactive dialect of pl/i, related to
        cps, dated about 1966.  the name is the abbreviation of
        "remote use of shared hardware".
     
        "introduction to rush", allen-babcock computing 1969.  sammet
        1969, p.309.
     
        2.  a high-level language that closely resembles
        tcl but aimed to provide substantially faster execution.
        see an introduction to the rush language
        ftp://ginsberg.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/papers/asah/rush-tcl94.ps.gz.
        by adam sah, jon blow, and brian dennis 1994.
     
        1996-12-17
     
     
see also:
pl/i cps high-level language tcl lt;an introduction to the rush languagegt; 

[8] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

rush
   the papyrus job 8:11. see bulrush. the expression
   "branch and rush" in isa. 9:14; 19:15 means "utterly."
   
see also:
bulrush 

[9] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

rush, co
  zip codes: 80833
rush, ky
  zip codes: 41168

[10] : U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

rush -- u.s. county in kansas
   population 2000:    3551
   housing units 2000: 1928
   land area 2000:     718.207468 sq. miles 1860.148723 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.210374 sq. miles 0.544865 sq. km
   total area 2000:    718.417842 sq. miles 1860.693588 sq. km
   located within:       kansas ks, fips 20
   location:             38.527472 n, 99.310127 w
   headwords:
    rush
    rush, ks
    rush county
    rush county, ks

[11] : U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

rush -- u.s. county in indiana
   population 2000:    18261
   housing units 2000: 7337
   land area 2000:     408.282683 sq. miles 1057.447250 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.337670 sq. miles 0.874562 sq. km
   total area 2000:    408.620353 sq. miles 1058.321812 sq. km
   located within:       indiana in, fips 18
   location:             39.621652 n, 85.475672 w
   headwords:
    rush
    rush, in
    rush county
    rush county, in

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