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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having or characterized by luxuriant vegetation.
  2. adj. Abundant; plentiful. See Synonyms at profuse.
  3. adj. Extremely productive; thriving.
  4. adj. Luxurious; opulent: the lush décor of a grand hotel.
  5. adj. Extremely pleasing to the senses: a lush scent; lush fruit; the lush sounds of an orchestra.
  6. adj. Voluptuous or sensual.
  7. adj. Overelaborate or extravagant: lush rhetoric.
  8. n. A drunkard.
  9. v. To drink liquor to excess.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
  2. Mellow; easily turned, as ground.
  3. Fresh, luxuriant, and juicy; succulent, as grass or other vegetation.
  4. n. A twig for thatching.
  5. To rush violently.
  6. To splash in water.
  7. n. Beer; intoxicating drink.
  8. To drink; tipple on.
  9. To drink intoxicating liquor.
  10. n. The burbot: same as losh .

Wiktionary

  1. adj. dense, teeming with life
  2. adj. luxuriant, delicious
  3. adj. beautiful, sexy
  4. adj. amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
  5. n. drunkard, sot, alcoholic
  6. n. intoxicating liquor
  7. v. to drink liquor to excess
  8. v. to drink (liquor) to excess

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Full of juice or succulence.
  2. adj. Having thick and luxurient vegetation.
  3. adj. Characterized by abundance or luxurience; rich.
  4. n. Liquor, esp. intoxicating liquor; drink.
  5. n. an habitual drunkard.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. full of juice
  2. n. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
  3. adj. characterized by extravagance and profusion
  4. adj. produced or growing in extreme abundance

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, relaxed, soft, probably alteration of lache, loose, weak, from Old French lasche, soft, succulent, from laschier, to loosen, from Late Latin laxicāre, to become shaky, frequentative of Latin laxāre, to open, relax, from laxus, loose; see lax.Origin unknown.

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