Rush

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• Rush

  ·noun A perfect recitation. II. Rush ·noun The merest trifle; a straw. III. Rush ·noun The act of ...

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• rush

  I. v. 1) Of cattle: to charge a man.Contraction for to rush-at. 1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sk...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Club-rush

  ·noun A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. ·see <<Bulr...

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• Rush-bearing

  ·noun A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes t...

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• flowering rush

  n. name given to the rush or reed, Xyris operculata, Lab., N.O. Xyrideae. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rush-broom

  n. Australian name for theindigenous shrub Viminaria denudata, Sm., N.O. Leguminosae. The flowers a...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris