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Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
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The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
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The merest trifle; a straw.
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A wick.
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A sudden forward motion.
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A surge.
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A rush of business can be difficult to handle effectively for its unexpected volume.
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General haste.
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Many errors were made in the rush to finish.
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A rapid, noisy flow.
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a rush of water; a rush of footsteps
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A sudden attack; an onslaught.
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The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
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(contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
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a rush on the quarterback
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A rusher; a lineman.
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the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line
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A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
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The rollercoaster gave me a rush.
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A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
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rush week
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(college slang) A perfect recitation.
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A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
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To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
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rush one's dinner; rush off an email response
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To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
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armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
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To dribble rapidly.
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(contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
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To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
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Don't rush your client or he may withdraw.
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To make a swift or sudden attack.
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To swiftly attack without warning.
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To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
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(college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing or initiation in order to join a fraternity or sorority.
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To transport or carry quickly.
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The shuttle rushes passengers from the station to the airport.
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To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
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To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
The chi rushes into the room through the door.
It is by this time mere vegetable mould and undistinguishable pond shore, through which rushes and flags have pushed up.
The French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the bridge is taken!
The giant rushes Xanthorrhoea and Kingia are peculiar to Australia.
A flight of stone steps leads the way down to a narrow passage, through which the air rushes with violence, outward in summer and inward in winter.
The native fishermen know all about them; how the eggs are fastened to the water plants, how soon after the little larvae swarm about in thousands, how fast they grow, until by the month of June they are all grown into big, fat creatures ready for the market; later in the summer the axolotls are said to take to the rushes, in the autumn they become scarce, but none have ever been known to leave the water or to metamorphose, nor are any perfect Amblystomas found in the vicinity of the two lakes."
The roofs were thatched with bark, straw, reeds or rushes.
The dragon hears Beowulf's shout of defiance, and rushes forth, breathing flames.
A violent current, starting from the Straits of Gibraltar, rushes eastward along the shore, and, hurled back from the headlands, is deflected to the west.
In shape they were most frequently cylindrical, having conical roofs thatched with rushes or straw.
I do try to think that he is still near, very near; but sometimes the thought that he is not here, that I shall not see him when I go to Boston,--that he is gone,--rushes over my soul like a great wave of sorrow.
A festival called the Rushbearing takes place on the Saturday within the octave of St Oswald's day (August 5th), when a holiday is observed and the church decorated with rushes, heather and flowers.
Soon after it becomes French the river rushes furiously through a deep gorge, being imprisoned on the north by the Credo and on the south by the Vuache, while the great fortress of 1'Ecluse guards this entrance into France.
Its food consists almost wholly of waterweeds, rushes and other vegetable substances, but it will also eat animal food on occasion, in the shape of insects, mice or young birds.
In the summer of 1309 Bruce fell on the MacDougals, on the right side of the Awe, where it rushes from Loch Awe at the pass of Brander, and, aided by a rear attack led by Douglas, seized the bridge and massacred the enemy.
In the United Kingdom, under the name of "coir" matting, a large amount of a coarse kind of carpet is made from coco-nut fibre; and the same material, as well as strips of cane, Manila hemp, various grasses and rushes, is largely employed in various forms for making door mats.
The rippled stalks are tied in small bundles and packed, roots downwards, in the dams till they are quite full; over the top of the upper layer is placed a stratum of rushes and straw, or sods with the grassy side downwards, and above all stones of sufficient weight to keep the flax submerged.
The neighbouring Eutaw Springs issue first from the foot of a hill and form a large stream of clear, cool water, but this, only a few yards away, again rushes underground to reappear about a m.
Vital spirit, inhaled from the outside air, rushes through the arteries till it reaches the various centres, especially the brain and the heart, and there causes thought and organic movement.
Here is the great cataract of Itamaraca, which rushes down an inclined plane for 3 m.
One of the last great gold rushes occurred in the Black Hills area of southwest South Dakota and northeast Wyoming.
Schinzia, which forms galllike swellings on the roots of rushes; Gymnosporangium, causing excrescences on juniper stems; numerous leaf Fungi such as Puccinia, Aecidium, Sep/one, &c., causing yellow, brown or black spots on leaves; or Ustilago in the anthers of certain flowers.
Passing the summit of that range, it rushes down as a cool and dry wind on the Pacific slopes beyond.
The swampy regions of the Nile and of the Eastern province are characterized by an extravagant growth of papyrus and other rushes, of reeds and coarse grass.
The festival is of early origin, and has been derived by some from the Roman Floralia, but appears also to have been made the occasion for carpeting the floors of churches, unpaved in early times, with rushes.
His attributes are a pitcher, cornucopiae (", horn of plenty"), rushes, marine animals and a sceptre.
When the air rushes out from one pipe, it has not to force its way into the open air, but finds a cavity being prepared for it close at hand in the other pipe, and so the extensions and compressions at the ends are more easily reduced.
It is exceedingly quick in its movements, but seizes its prey by waiting in ambush or stealthily approaching to within springing distance, when it suddenly rushes upon it and tears it to ground with its The Leopard (Felis pardus).
The summits of some of the mountains are too high for trees and above belts of dwarf spruce, balsam and birch they are clothed chiefly with sandworts, diapensia, cassiope, rushes, sedges and lichens.
In the Norris basin are the Black Growler and the Hurricane, which consist of small apertures through which steam rushes with such tremendous force that it may be heard for miles.
The city is built on a low plain, is regularly laid out, and has many fine warehouses, public buildings and residences, but its greater part, however, consists of mud-walled cabins supported by bamboo (guadua) framework and thatched with rushes.
Immediately below that town the Rhone rushes through a great natural gateway, a narrow and striking defile (now strongly fortified), which commands the entrance of the Valais.
The characteristic feature of this portion of the course of the Rhone is the number of narrow gorges or cluses through which it rushes, while it is forced by the southern spur of the Jura to run in a southerly direction, till, after rounding the base of that spur, it can flow freely westwards to Lyons.
At times of storm the compressed air, as it rushes out, produces a sound as of thunder.
Its nest is a light construction of dry rushes, having its foundation in the water, and contains as many as six eggs, which are white tinged with buff.
The grass-tree of Australia (Xanthorrhoea) is a remarkable plant, allied to the rushes in the form of its flower, but with a tall, unbranched, soft-woody, palm-like trunk bearing a crown of long, narrow, grass-like leaves and stalked heads of small, densely-crowded flowers.
In the hot season no Abyssinian goes without a flag-shaped fan of plaited rushes.
It rushes out from the hillside and is received in a covered masonry canal, whence it flows in large iron pipes till it reaches five enormous reservoirs constructed just opposite to the entrance gates of the royal palace at Capodimonte.
The stream, as far south as Iddah (Ida), a town on the east bank, rushes through a valley cut between the hills, the sandstone cliffs at some places rising 150 ft.
Where Juncus spp. dominate, marsh bedstraw (Galium palustre) and greater bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus uliginosus) often sprawl among the rushes.
We did it twice, and we just saw the rushes the other day and it looks brilliant.
Keeping the church cool and fresh - rushes and hay would disguise the smells of large numbers of people congregated together.
So after grabbing the first (of many) caffeine rushes we take our place for the first of many horrific delectations.
The water rushes through a narrow rocky dell almost hidden from view by over-arching trees.
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Basic flushes are dominated by sedges accompanied by rushes, a few grass species and some choice herbs.
The flora includes reeds, rushes and sedges along with drier grassland species such as meadow vetchling.
In addition to various sounds produced at other times, an elephant when about to charge gives vent to a shrill loud ` trumpet'; and on such occasions rushes on its FIG.
Trees are generally absent, except for thickets of poplars, dwarf oaks and tamarisks along the course of the Kura, the delta of which is smothered under a jungle of reeds and rushes.
Permission was given for dancing, archery, leaping, vaulting and other harmless recreations, and of "having of May games, Whitsun ales and morris dances, and the setting up of May-poles and other sports therewith used, so as the same may be had in due and convenient time without impediment or neglect of divine service, and that women shall have leave to carry rushes to church for the decorating of it."
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