PUSH, v.t.

1. A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing. – Spenser.
2. Any pressure, impulse or force applied; as, to give the ball the first push. – Addison.
3. An assault or attack. – Watts.
4. A forcible onset; a vigorous effort. – Addison.
5. Exigence; trial; extremity. When it comes to the push, it is no more than talk. – L'Estrange.
6. A sudden emergence. – Shak.
7. A little swelling or pustule; a wheal; a pimple; an eruption. – Bacon.

1. To make a thrust; as, to push with the horns or with a sword. – Dryden. Addison.
2. To make an effort. At length / Both sides resolv'd to push, we tried our strength. – Dryden.
3. To make an attack. The king of the south shall push at him. – Dan. xi.
4. To burst out. To push on, to drive or urge forward; to hasten. Push on, brave men.

1. To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; or to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; opposed to draw. We push a thing forward by force applied behind it; we draw by applying force before it. We may push without moving the object.
2. To butt; to strike with the end of the horns; to thrust the points of horns against. If the ox shall push a man-servant or maid-servant … he shall be stoned. – Exod. xxi.
3. To press or urge forward; as, to push an objection too far. He forewarns his care / With rules to push his fortune or to bear. – Dryden.
4. To urge; to drive. Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor. – Spectator.
5. To enforce; to press; to drive to a conclusion. We are pushed for an answer. – Swift.
6. To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease. To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.

1. A pustule; a pimple.
   
   
   [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bacon.
2. To press against with force] to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.
   
   

   Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat. Milton.

3. To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.
   
   
   Shak.
4. A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.
5. A crowd; a company or clique of associates; a gang.
   
   
   [Slang]
6. To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
   
   

   If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, . . . the ox shall be stoned. Ex. xxi. 32.

7. To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.
   
   

   At the time of the end shall the kind of the south push at him and the king of the north shall come against him. Dan. xi. 40.

   War seemed asleep for nine long years; at length
   Both sides resolved to push, we tried our strength. Dryden.

8. Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.
9. To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.
   
   
   " To push his fortune." Dryden.

   Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor. Spectator.

   We are pushed for an answer. Swift.

10. To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.
    
    

    To push on, to drive or urge forward; to hasten.

    The rider pushed on at a rapid pace. Sir W. Scott.

11. An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.
    
    

    Exact reformation is not perfected at the first push. Milton.

    When it comes to the push, 'tis no more than talk. L' Estrange.

12. To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.
13. The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.
    
    

    [Colloq.]

    Syn. -- See Thrust.

14. To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.
    
    

    To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.