hussar, husar

[Hungarian huszar = the twentieth, from husz =twenty, so called because "The salt sea water pa es by And hushes half the babbling Wye." Tennyson: In Memoriam, xix. 2. To allay, to appease, to calm. "And hush my deepest grief of all." Tennyson: In Memoriam, xix. B. In trans.: To be still, quiet, or silent. To hush up: To suppre , to keep back, to keep concealed or secret.