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Definition of Frushing
1. frush [v] - See also: frush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frushing
Literary usage of Frushing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"Thy frushing blade nie in this prison threw. Hamilton'! Wallace, p. 28. 2. Metaph.
used in relation to the unsettled state of political matters. ..."
2. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"See that, »t their assembly there, Sic a frushing of spears were, That far away
men micht it hear, That at that meeting ..."
3. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland by John Mackay Wilson (1857)
"Wha could hae told them that they were but frushing their straw an' rotten wood
against the iron scales o' Leviathan ? An' now that they hae dune their ..."
4. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1903)
"Sae that at their assembly there Sic a frushing of spears were, That far away
men micht it hear ; That at that meeting ..."
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