Definition of Cushes

1. Noun. (plural of cush) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cushes

1. cush [n] - See also: cush

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cushes

cuscuses
cusec
cusecs
cush
cush-cush
cushat
cushat-dove
cushat-doves
cushat dove
cushat doves
cushats
cushaw
cushaws
cushdie
cushdy
cushes (current term)
cushier
cushiest
cushily
cushiness
cushinesses
cushing disease
cushing syndrome
cushingoid
cushion
cushion calamint
cushion flower
cushion of epiglottis
cushioned
cushionet

Literary usage of Cushes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1852)
"NFC, in your journal, vigorously cushes forward his own favorite theory of " A National Currency : Real Estate its Basis." lie first of these is no doubt a ..."

2. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Evangeline Maria O'Connor (1901)
"... the young of the cuckoo; V. i. 60. Cuisses, armour for the thighs (Quartos and Folios, "cushes"); IV. i. 105. Culverin, a kind of cannon; II. iii. 56. ..."

3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... cushes,' cuisses', pieces, of armour protecting the thighs. 1 Hen. IV, iv. 1. 105 (15%); Heywood, Iron Age, Part II, v. 1. ..."

4. Social Forces in England and America by Herbert George Wells (1914)
"It is like watching a game of billiards with wooden cushes and beechwood balls. §2 But let me take one special instance. In a periodical, now no longer ..."

5. Medii ævi Kalendarium: Or Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages by Robert Thomas Hampson (1841)
"... the following reason for the custom :—" Sedge and cushes, with the which many in the country do use in Som- mer time to strawe their ..."

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