I would not, my good people! give a rush for your judgment

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia · 1897 · p. 173
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ix. 17. 4. A small patch of underwood. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] -Bald rush, a plant of the American cyperaceous genus Psilocarya. - Dutch rush. See scouring rush.-Field-rush. See wood - rush . - Flowering rush, an aquatic plant, Butomus umbel lat us , of the Alismaсех , found through temperate Europe and Asia. It has long narrow triangular leaves, and a scape from 2 to 4 feet high, bearing an umbel of twenty or thirty showy pink flowers, each an inch in diameter. An old name is water - gladiole . Hare's-tail rush. See hare's -tail. Heath-rush, an Old World species, Juncus squarrosus , growing on moors rushed You present rather a remarkable spectacle, inasmuch as you are rushing a bill through here without knowing what it contains. Congre ional Record , XXI. 7788. Specifically-2. In foot - ball , to force by main strength toward the goal of one's opponents: said of the ball.-3. To secure by rushing. [Colloq.] Peere es occupied every seat, and even rushed the reporters' gallery, three reporters only having been fortunate enough to take their places before the rush. W. Eesant , Fifty Years Ago, p. 137. 4. To cause to hasten; especially, to urge to undue haste; drive; push. [Colloq.] Nearly all [telegraph] operators, good and bad, are vain of their abilities to send rapidly, and nearly all are ambitious to send faster than the operator at the receiving station can write it down, or in other words to rush him. Elect. Rev. (Amer.), XV. xiv. 10. rush2 (rush), n. [ rush of troops; a rush of winds. A train of cars was just ready for a start; the locomotive was fretting and fuming, like a steed impatient for a headlong rush . Hawthorne , Seven Gables, xvii. His panting breath told of the rush he had actually made. Mrs. Oliphant , Poor Gentleman, xxviii. and heaths.-Horned rush. See Rhynchospora . Spike- 2. An eager demand; a run. rush. See Eleocharis . - Sweet-rush. (a) Any plant of the genus Cyperus . (b) The lemon-gra or ginger-gra , Andropogon Schœnanthus . Toad-rush, a low, tufted, pale-colored species, Juncus bufonius , distributed over a great part of the world. - To wed or marry with a rush ring, to marry in jest, but sometimes implying an evil purpose. And Tommy was so [kind] to Katty, And wedded her with a rush ring.
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