Definitions
run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
Word origin
From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht.
Used in a sentence
“VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?”
“And hush’d my deepest grief of all.”
“It is the hush of night.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Silence request”4 letters
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