(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous
plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
(n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
(v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous
rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a
precipice.
(v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or
without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or
speculation.
(v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to
hurry forward.
(v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an
error.
(n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a
violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush
of water.
(n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
(n.) A perfect recitation.
(n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center
of the rush line; the end rush.
(n.) The act of running with the ball.
