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Push [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.

2. Any pressure, impulse or force applied; as, to give the ball the first push

3. An assault or attack.

4. A forcible onset; a vigorous effort.

5. Exigence; trial; extremity.

6. When it comes to the push it is no more than talk.

7. A sudden emergence.

8. A little swelling or pustule; a wheal; a pimple; an eruption.

Push [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make a thrust; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.

2. To make an effort.

3. At length

4. Both sides resolv'd to push we tried our strength.

5. To make an attack.

6. The king of the south shall push at him. Daniel 11:40 .

7. To burst out.

8. To push on, to drive or urge forward; to hasten. push on, brave men.

Push [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; or to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; opposed to draw. We push a thing forward by force applied behind it; we draw by applying force before it. We may push without moving the object.

2. To butt; to strike with the end of the horns; to thrust the points of horns against.

3. If the ox shall push a man-servant or maid-servant--he shall be stones. Exodus 21:29 .

4. To press or urge forward; as, to push an objection too far.

5. He forewarns his care

6. With rules to push his fortune or to bear.

7. To urge; to drive.

8. Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor.

9. To enforce; to press; to drive to a conclusion.

10. We are pushed for an answer.

11. To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.

12. To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.

Push [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A pustule; a pimple.

2. A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.

3. Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.

4. An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.

5. The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.

Push [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.

2. To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.

3. To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.

Push [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.

2. To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

3. To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.

4. To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.

5. To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.

Pushed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pressed; urged; driven.

Pushed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pusher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that drives forward.

Pusher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, pushes.

Pushing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; vigorous.

Pushing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pressing; driving; urging forward.

Pushing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.

Pushing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pushkin Encyclopedia Britannica

PUSHKIN. See Poushkin.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 20, p. 118
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Pushpin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A child's play in which pins are pushed alternately.

Pushpin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A child's game played with pins.

Pushtu Encyclopedia Britannica

PUSHTU. See Afghanistan, vol. ι. p. 238.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 20, p. 118
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Exodus 21:29

But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.

Exodus 21:32

If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

If the ox gores a manservant or maidservant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of that servant, and the ox must be stoned.

Exodus 21:36

Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.

Numbers 35:20

But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;

Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,

Numbers 35:22

But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,

But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,

Deuteronomy 33:17

His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Joshua 23:5

And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.

The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.

Judges 16:30

And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.

1 Kings 22:11

And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.

Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

2 Kings 4:27

And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

2 Chronicles 18:10

And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.

Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

Job 30:12

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

Psalms 44:5

Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.

Psalms 118:13

Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me.

Isaiah 16:2

For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

Ezekiel 34:21

Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

Daniel 8:4

I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.

I saw the ram charging toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no deliverance from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.

Daniel 11:40

And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships, invading many countries and sweeping through them like a flood.

Amos 2:7

That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.