Now dial. Also 6 whysh. [f. WHISH int.1; cf. WHISHT v., WHIST v.1]

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  1.  trans. To silence, put to silence, hush.

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1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 287 b. Pompeius cooled & whyshed hym in this wyse.

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1684.  O. Heywood, Diaries (1885), IV. 111. Sir Jo. Kay silenced and whisht him.

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  2.  intr. To be silent or quiet.

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1607.  Tomkis, Lingua, IV. viii. Why do you whish thus? here’s none to heare you.

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1876.  Blackmore, Cripps, xlix. Whish!—can’t ’ee whish, with my name so pat?

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