Now dial. Also 9 Sc. wheesh. [Cf. HUSH int., WHISHT int.] An exclamation to command silence: Hush!

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1635.  Quarles, Embl., II. viii. 9. Whish, lullaby,… What ayles my Babe to cry?

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1675.  Covel, in Early Voy. Levant (Hakluyt Soc.), 194. All the waiters cry’d: Whish, whish, etc. in token of silence.

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1858.  Trollope, Dr. Thorne, xix. ‘A good dinner now and then is a very good thing,’ ‘Yes; but I don’t like eating it with hogs.’ ‘Whish-h; softly, softly, Mr. Gresham, or you’ll disturb Mr. Apjohn’s digestion.’

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1876.  [see prec. 2].

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