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Definition of Cushes
1. cush [n] - See also: cush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cushes
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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