Noah Webster
Gush
GUSH, verb intransitive
1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; as, blood gushes from a vein in venesection.
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out. Psalms 78:20.
2. To flow copiously. Tears gushed from her eyes.
GUSH, verb transitive To emit in copious effusion.
The gaping wound gushed out a crimson flood. [Unusual.]
GUSH, noun A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed place; an emission of liquor in a large quantity and with force; the fluid thus emitted.