Gush | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Gūsh, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. GUSHED (gūsht); p. pr. & vb. n. GUSHING.] [L. Ger. & D. gūdsen, allied to N. H. Ger. gieszen, O. H. Ger. giozan, giezan, Goth. giutan, O. Sax. giotan, A-S. geotan, Icel. gjota, Sw. gjuta, Dan. gyde, to pour out.]

Sense 1. To flow copiously; to issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement.

He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. Ps. lxxviii. 20.

A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound. Spenser.

Sense 2. To act with a sudden and rapid impulse.

Gūsh, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To emit in a copious manner. [Rare.]

The gaping wound gushed out a crimson flood. Dryden.

Gūsh, n.

noun

n. A rapid outflowing; a sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed place; an emission of liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted.

The gush of springs, And fall of lofty fountains. Byron.