hush

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make silent or quiet.
2. v. To calm; soothe.
3. v. To keep from public knowledge; suppress mention of. Often used with up: tried to hush up the damaging details.
4. v. To be or become silent or still.
5. n. A silence or stillness, especially after noise.
6. adj. Archaic Silent; quiet.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To reduce to silence; make still or quiet; check or suppress the sound of.
2. To appease; allay; calm, as commotion or agitation.
3. In mining, to clear off (the soil and surface dirt), in order to expose the bed-rock, so that it can be ascertained whether there are indications of a vein or metalliferous deposit.
4. To be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.
5. Forbear; be still; hist; attend.
6. n. A state of stillness; profound quiet.
7. Silent; still; quiet.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive to become quiet
2. v. transitive to make quiet
3. n. A silence, especially after some noise
4. n. A mining method using water

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
2. v. To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
3. v. To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.
4. n. rare Stillness; silence; quiet.
5. adj. Silent; quiet.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. become quiet or still; fall silent
2. v. run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
3. v. wash by removing particles
4. n. (poetic) tranquil silence
5. v. become quiet or quieter
6. v. cause to be quiet or not talk