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Webster 1828 Edition

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rushing

rushing ‎(plural rushings)

A rapid surging motion.
- 1841, Alexander Tweedie, William Wood Gerhard, A system of practical medicine
  […] the impediment to the entrance of air into the corresponding portions of the lung is sufficient to produce a succession of interrupted rushings of that fluid during the efforts of respiration […]