vbl. sb. [f. LUSH v.2 + -ING1.] The action of the vb. LUSH2. Also pl., abundance.
1829. Scott, Jrnl., 18 March. Cigars in loads, whisky in lushings. [So in Lockhart; ed. 1890 has lashings; reading of MS. perh. doubtful.]
1890. H. Nisbet, Bail Up! i. You can have both grub and liquor here in lushings.
b. Comb.: lushing-ken, a drinking bar, low public house; lushing-man, a drunkard.
1859. Matsell, Vocab. (Farmer). With all the prigs and lushing-men, A hundred stretches hence.
1883. L. Wingfield, A. Rowe, I. v. 120. Unable to steer clear of lushing-kens, or avoid the seductions of the gaming-table.