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▪ I. rushy, a.1|ˈrʌʃɪ|
Also 4 resshi, 5–6 russhy, 8– Sc. rashy.
[f. rush n.1 + -y1.]
1. Made or consisting of rushes; rushen.
1382Wyclif Isaiah xviii. 2 Wo to the lond..that sendeth in the se messageres, and in resshi vesseles vp on watris. c1440Pallad. on Husb. xi. 494 A multitude of reysouns puld they take, And into russhy frayels rare hem gete. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. i, His spring should [not]..drive the rushy-mils, that in his way The shepheard's made. 1728Swift Pastoral Dial. Wks. 1751 VII. 204 Sharp are the Stones, take thou this rushy Matt. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. viii, Then turn to-night, and freely share..My rushy couch and frugal fare. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 131, I..bound my posies up with rushy ties. 1842F. E. Paget M. Malvoisin 94 She laid her head on her rushy pillow.
fig.1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 121 Beside this rushie cheine of M. Heskins necessitie you shall heare matter of congruitie. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 362 Surely this rushie religion..will but help to make more fuell for those eternal flames. 1659C. Noble Mod. Answ. Immod. Queries To Rdr., These rushy and sedgy expressions that are set down in this Paper.
2. Producing, full of, covered with, rushes.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxxxvi. vii, [God] cutt in two the russhy sea,..And made the middest Jacobs way. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 84 By paued fountaine, or by rushie brooke. 1610Fletcher Faithf. Sheph. i. i, Sit Down on this rushy Bank. a1683Scroggs Courts-Leet (1714) 210 Whereby the Land is overflowed, so that it becomes rushy and unprofitable. c1750Shenstone Ode to Sir R. Lyttleton 20 Where coots in rushy dingles hide. 1794Cowper Needless Alarm 9 A narrow brook, by rushy banks conceal'd. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 952 Coarse rushy lands may..be converted into good pastures. 1899Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 141 All the land except the combes was a great furzy and rushy waste.
3. Resembling a rush or rushes; rush-like.
1597Gerarde Herbal 3 Many sower, rushie leaves. Ibid. 11 Rushie Water grasse hath his rootes..with many fibres or strings hanging at them. 1617Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 36/1 The snaky Dun, the Ore with rushy Hair. 1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 170 The former was of that rushy plant. 1821Welby Visit N. Amer. 151 The effect upon the long rushy grass as the fire reaches it, is frightfully grand. 1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 262/2 Triticum junceum, Sea Rushy Wheat-grass. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora p. xix, Junceæ,..Rushy herbs.
4. Comb., as rushy-fringed, rushy-leaved, rushy-margined.
1634Milton Comus 890 By the rushy-fringed bank, Where grows the Willow and the Osier dank. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Narcissus, The smallest, white, mountain, rushy-leaved narcissus. 1786Abercrombie Arr. in Gard. Assist. 26 Broom,..Rushy twigged, or Spanish. 1890Spectator 7 June, A particular roadside, along which there was a rushy-margined pool.
▪ II. rushy, a.2|ˈrʌʃɪ|
[f. rush n.2 + -y1.]
Quick, hurried. Also as adv., in a rush, hurriedly.
1908H. G. Wells War in Air iv. 153 Too soon, Bert my boy—too soon and too rushy. 1976W. Trevor Children of Dynmouth i. 34 It was all half joking, all quick and rushy, his mother laughing her shrill staccato laugh, Rose-Ann laughing also, neither of them listening to him. |