vbl. sb. [f. LUSH v.2 + -ING1.] The action of the vb. LUSH2. Also pl., abundance.

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1829.  Scott, Jrnl., 18 March. Cigars in loads, whisky in lushings. [So in Lockhart; ed. 1890 has lashings; reading of MS. perh. doubtful.]

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1890.  H. Nisbet, Bail Up! i. You can have both grub and liquor here in lushings.

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  b.  Comb.: lushing-ken, a drinking bar, low public house; lushing-man, a drunkard.

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1859.  Matsell, Vocab. (Farmer). With all the prigs and lushing-men, A hundred stretches hence.

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1883.  L. Wingfield, A. Rowe, I. v. 120. Unable … to steer clear of lushing-kens, or avoid the seductions of the gaming-table.

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