Definition of "mush"

mush¹

/mʌʃ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural mushes
1. A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
  Quotations
  His food is of the coarsest kind, consisting for the most part of cornmeal mush, which often finds its way from the wooden tray to his mouth in an oyster shell.
  1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 1, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […]
2. (radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
3. (surfing) The foam of a breaker.
  Quotations
  And Rincon was all about surfing. Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
  2008, Bucky McMahon, Night Diver, page 80
4. (geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
5. (MLE) A gun.
verb
third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed
1. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.

/mʌʃ/

/mʌʃ/

interjection
1. A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.
  Quotations
  "An' of course the dogs can hike along all day with that contraption behind them," affirmed a second of the men. / "Certainly," said Hal, with freezing politeness, taking hold of the gee-pole with one hand and swinging his whip from the other. "Mush!" he shouted. "Mush on there!" / The dogs sprang against the breast-bands, strained hard for a few moments, then relaxed. They were unable to move the sled.
  1903 July, Jack London, “The Toil of Trace and Trail”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., pages 130–131
noun
plural mushes
1. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
verb
third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed
1. (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
2. (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
  Quotations
  Together the two men loaded and lashed the sled. They warmed their hands for the last time, pulled on their mittens, and mushed the dogs over the bank and down to the river-trail.
  1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight, part 1 chapter 4

/mʌʃ/

/mʊʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed
1. (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.