Used as a command to a person or group: ‘be quiet’; ‘don't make any noise’. Cf. quiet, int.

‘Be quiet!’, ‘silence!’, ‘hush!’ Now somewhat archaic.

An exclamation to command silence: Hush! (Coinciding with the imperative of whist, v.1 1.)

As an imperative. Used either to enjoin silence or deprecate haste; = soft, adv. 7. Now rare.

As an imperative. Used either to enjoin silence or deprecate haste. Standing alone. Now archaic.

= hush, int.

An exclamation used to call attention, or to enjoin silence: cf. hist, int. (In quot. 1540 as n.)

An exclamation used to impose silence; = hush, int., whist, int.1

soft and peace: = sense 7. Cf. phrases 1b. Obsolete. rare.

As an exhortation: ‘be quiet’, ‘be of few words’, ‘enough said’. Cf. palabra, n.

An ejaculation enjoining silence.

Used to enjoin silence, attract attention, or call on a person to listen. Also (after use in sense 2) in hist-a-boy. Now somewhat archaic.

An exclamation to command silence: Hush!

An exclamation enjoining silence: Hush!

As a command or request: ‘be quiet’; ‘don't make any noise’; ‘stop talking’.

Hush!

A truce. Usually (esp. in School slang) as int., calling for a truce or (occasionally) for quiet.

An exclamation used to enjoin silence or noiselessness; = hush, int. The reduplication or prolongation of the sound is indicated by sh-sh, s-s-sh…

Expressing a whispered signal for silence. Also as n.: an utterance of ‘pst’.

Used as a command or request for silence: ‘be quiet’.