Definition of "hush"

hush

/hʌʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed
1. (intransitive) To become quiet.
2. (transitive) To make quiet.
3. (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
  Quotations
  VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?
  1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], Act I, scene i, page 11
  And hush’d my deepest grief of all.
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XIX, page 32
4. (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
noun
uncountable
1. A silence, especially after some noise
  Quotations
  It is the hush of night.
  1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], stanza LXXXVI
  And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that Māna rested, and there was silence on Pegāna save for the drumming of Skarl.
  1905, [Edward Plunkett,] Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegāna‎, London: Elkin Mathews, […]
2. A mining method using water