Definition of "husht" [husht]

• Obsolete form of hushed. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of hush. (verb)

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• "“Husht, now—husht, ” she said, as if aside— “husht, won’t you—sure I may speak the thing to her—you said it—there now, husht!"
• "To this she made no reply, except by uttering the word husht! and pulling the ends, first of the white ribbon, and afterwards of the black."
• "Millions did begin to sing the Calling Song, where Million did call husht unto Million, and the sound did come onward toward where we did be, and did go over us, and pass onward in a husht and wondrous breathing of sound, as that all the Love that did be ever in this world, did call in a low anguish unto a lost Beloved."