Definition of Rushen

1. made of rushes [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rushen

rush family
rush hour
rush nut
rush off
rush out
rush rose
rushbuckler
rushbucklers
rushed
rushed behind
rushed behinds
rushedly
rushee
rushees
rushen (current term)
rusher
rushers
rushes
rushest
rusheth
rushier
rushiest
rushiness
rushing
rushingly
rushings
rushlight
rushlights
rushlike

Literary usage of Rushen

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

1. Publications by Manx Society, Brandeis Lawyers' Society (1871)
"... containing divers laws and regulations made for the government of the Isle of Man :— Orders and duties that the soldiers of the castle of rushen and ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"For suppressing the book Stevenson was imprisoned m Castle rushen by Home, who required Wilson to deliver up the volume as a condition of Stevenson s ..."

3. An Historical and Statistical Account of the Isle of Man, from the Earliest by Joseph Train (1845)
"... and St. Germain's Churches in Holm Peel—The Nunnery—Chapel of rushen—Friary ... of rushen—Privileges of the Monks—Eminent Persons interred in the Abbey ..."

4. Antiquitates Manniae: Or a Collection of Memoirs on the Antiquities of the by Joseph George Cumming (1868)
"rushen ABBEY IN THE ISLE OF MAN. BY THE REV. JG CUMMING, MA, PG8. THE ruins of rushen Abbey, ... of rushen, two miles north of Castletown, Isle of Man. ..."

5. The Ancient Ordinances and Statute Laws of the Isle of Man: Carefully Copied by Isle of Man, Mark Anthony Mills (1821)
"... at the Castle of rushen betwixt the Gates, by Henry Byron, Lieutenant of Mann, upon Tuesday next after the xxth day of Christmas, Anno Domini 1430. ..."

6. The Life-story of Charlotte de la Trémoille, Countess of Derby by Mary Catherine Rowsell (1905)
"CHAPTER XIII AT CASTLE rushen. AN HONOURABLE SURRENDER. THE MAUDLIN WELL. CORRESPONDENCE RECOMMENCES. ... In the old castles of rushen and of Peel, ..."

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