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cush
1[ koosh ]
noun
, Slang.
- money, especially when reserved for some special use.
Cush
2or Kush
[ koosh, kuhsh ]
noun
- (in the Bible) the eldest son of Ham.
- an area mentioned in the Bible, sometimes identified with Upper Egypt.
- Kingdom of Cush, an ancient African state in the area that is now southern Egypt and the Sudan: part of the region of Nubia (1000 b.c.–a.d. 350).
Cush
/ kʌʃ; kʊʃ /
noun
- the son of Ham and brother of Canaan (Genesis 10:6)
- the country of the supposed descendants of Cush (ancient Ethiopia), comprising approximately Nubia and the modern Sudan, and the territory of southern (or Upper) Egypt
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The posterity of Cush, he tells us, were addicted to the contemplation of the stars, and worshipped the sun as a god.
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I had eaten almost everything from "cush" and "slapjacks" to raw corn and uncooked bacon.
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Nilo gave himself to study of the drum, reminded, doubtless, of similar warlike devices in Kash-Cush.
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These wonderful achievements were of the children of Cush, the ancestor of the Negroes.
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The words "Ethiopia" and "Cush" were used always to describe a black people, or the country where such a people lived.
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