frushn.1
/frʌʃ/ Obsolete exc. Scottish.† 1.
a. A rush, charge, onset, collision. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > attack > charge > [noun]
reseOE
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c1400 Melayne 268 Righte at the firste frusche thay felde Fyve thowsande knyghtis.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xxi All in a frushe in all the haste they may They ran.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 292 He and all his cumpany..In-till a frusche all tuk the flycht.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxxx. 474 So they aprochyd, and al at a frusshe of both partyes dasshed together.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 74 The frosshe was so felle of the furse grekes..That [etc.].
b. The noise caused by this; the crash of breaking weapons, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [noun] > of impact or concussion > crash, clash, or smash
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1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 545 Men mycht her, that had beyn by, A gret frusche [1489 Adv. frusch] of the speres that brast.
1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xix. 369 With horrible uproar, and frush Of rocks that meet in battle.
1875 J. Veitch Tweed 144 Of mingling spears a shivering frusch.
2. collective. Fragments, splinters.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > fragments
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 2 Al the frushe and leauings of Greeks.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 190 Some brak in sma' The carvit wark..Sending the glory o' the wa' In fritter't frush about.
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frushn.2
/frʌʃ/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
= frog n.2 Also (more fully running frush) a disease which attacks this part of a horse's foot; thrush.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves
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quittor1703
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canker1753
grease-heels1753
sand-crack1753
thrush1753
greasing1756
bony hoof1765
seedy toe1829
side bone1840
cracked heel1850
mud fever1872
navicular1888
coronitis1890
toe-crack1891
flat-foot1894
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > hoof > substance inside hoof
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frog1610
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cushion1892
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 416 The Frush is the tenderest part of the hooue towardes the heele..and because it is fashioned like a forked head, the French men cal it Furchette, which word our Ferrers..perhaps for easinesse sake of pronuntiation, do make it a monasillable, & pronounce it the Frush.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman i. ii. 9 Let first her shooes be taken off, her feet pared well, the Frush and heeles opened.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 152/2 The running of the Frush; which is a rotten corrupt humour, that comes out of his [a horse's] Leg.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Hoof When the Frush is broad, the Heels will be weak.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 32 A large Coronet is often accompanied with a tender Heel and running Frush.
1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. 1350 Frush, or Frog, among farriers, a sort of tender horn which arises in the middle of a horse's sole.
1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Frush, the thrush, or tender part of a horse's foot.
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frushadj.
/frʌʃ/, U.S. /frəʃ/, Scottish English /frʌʃ/ Scottish and northern dialect.figurative.1823 J. Galt Entail I. viii. 59 When we think o' the frush green kail-custock-like nature of bairns.
1. Liable to break; brittle, dry, fragile. Cf. frushy adj.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > brittle or fragile
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frush1802
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1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 142 O wae betide the frush saugh wand!
1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 243 Frush becomes the whole cover in a few seasons; and not a bird can open its wing..without scattering the straw like chaff.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xi. 180 The bottom of the pulpit being auld and frush, the wooden tram flew crash through.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Frush, very brittle; crumbly.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Frush, brittle, as applied to wood, &c.: said of flax when the ‘shoughs’ separate easily from the fibre.
2. Soft, not firm in substance.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > [adjective]
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merroweOE
neshOE
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frush1848
1848 T. Aird Poet. Wks. 302 They..peel the foul brown film of rind [of the earth-nut] away To the pure white, and taste it soft and frush.
1889 Daily News 12 Nov. 2/1 Beef that is in the flabby, unwholesome-looking condition that the butchers call ‘frush’.
3. Frank, forward. Aberd. (Jamieson). ? Obsolete.
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a1807 J. Skinner Amusem. Leisure Hours (1809) 101 Ye're unco frush At praising what's nae worth a rush.
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frushv.
/frʌʃ/ a. transitive. To strike violently so as to crush, bruise, or smash. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike violently
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13.. K. Alis. 1814 To frusche the gadelyng, and to bete, And none of heom on lyve lete.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 201 Lest þei frushen her owne brest at þe hard stoone.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 184 They frusshed his helme & made him a meruaillous wounde in his hede.
1592 R. Greene Pandosto (new ed.) sig. Biijv High Cæders are frushed with tempests, when low shrubs are not toucht with the wind.
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xi. lxv With fury each invades His opposite their mutual armour frushing.
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c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 588 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 24 Harnise, and sched, & body, all fruschit in peciss [w]vndir small.
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 1201 Thei fond his scheld was fruschit al to nocht.
a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1277/1 Enmyty wil I put betwene thee and the woman..she shal frushe thyne head in peeces.
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. ii. 107 He was..frushed and brused to death.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Judges v. 11 The chariottes were frushed together.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > violently > into a place or condition
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shoveOE
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c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 204 Where evere þis spirit takiþ him he fruyshiþ him doun.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3225 Þai..frusshit hom abake.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5931 He frusshet so felly freikes to ground.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > render unable [verb (transitive)] > crush or disable
bruiseOE
frush1488
to break down1853
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 197 The Sothroune part so frusched was that tide That in the stour thai mycht no langar bide.
?1510 T. More tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. c.iv Refreshing all his membres yt were brosed & frushed with that feuer.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iv. f. 16v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I They are sore frusht with sickenesse.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and violently
driveeOE
fallOE
reseOE
routOE
rashOE
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c1400 Melayne 469 A fire þan fro þe crosse gane frusche.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxii. 238 Thei frusschen to gidere fulle fiercely.
c1430 Syr Gener (Roxb.) 3831 He com frushing, and leid on, And sleugh ther many a worthie mon.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 161 Horsis com thair fruschand, hed for hed.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin x. 164 Thei frussht bothe on an hepe, the horse and his maister.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11893 Þan the freike shuld frusshe out, & a fyre make.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11927 The grekes..Frushet in felly at the faire yates.
3. transitive. To rub harshly, scratch. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scratch
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c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 39 With his berde he frusshed hir mouthe un-mete.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13940 He..ffowle frusshet his face with his felle nailes.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Frush, to rub, to rub bright, to polish.]
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)]
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to fall apart1761
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1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) xii. 57 Ye hand-ax schaft fruschit in twa.
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 219 Timber-Work..to keep the Arras from frushing.
a. To carve (a chicken); cf. break v. 2b. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of fowls > prepare fowls [verb (transitive)] > carve
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c1430 J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Roxb.) 33 A chekyn [is] frusshed.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. Av Fruche that chekyn.
1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 17 Persons of some Rank, and Quality, say, Pray cut up that Goose: Help me to some of that Chicken..not considering how indiscretely they talk, before Men of Art, whose proper Terms are, Break that Goose, frust that Chicken.
b. To dress (a chub). Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > prepare seafood [verb (transitive)] > dress in specific way > chub
frush1787
1726 Gentleman Angler 149 Frushed is a Term used for a Chub or Chevin when it is dressed; as to Frush, i.e. to Dress.
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 168 Frush a chub, dress him.
6. To straighten, set upright (the feathers of an arrow). Obsolete exc. Historical.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > produce or develop arms [verb (transitive)] > feather an arrow > straighten feathers
frush1548
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. lvjv How quikly the Archers bent their bowes and frushed theire feathers.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xix. 725/1 The Archers stript vp their sleeues, bent their bowes and frushed their feathers.
1871 C. M. Yonge Cameos cv, in Monthly Packet Apr. 349 The archers strung their bows and ‘frushed’ their arrows.
Derivatives
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking violently
dushing1340
frushing1487
swashinga1661
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > violent
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1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 504 At the assemble thair, Sic a frusching of speris wair That fer avay men mycht it her.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) x. sig. Avi Than began great..frusshyng of speres & bateryng of harneys wt swerdes.
1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 39v, in Bulwarke of Defence Euery riuyng, or frushyng of mannes fleshe, whiche maie be..by meanes of a wounde, and without a wounde.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Ammaccatura..a frushing together.
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