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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Flush

Flŭsh, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. FLUSHED (flūsht); p. pr. & vb. n. FLUSHING.] [Cf. O. H. Ger. flusc, loose, flowing; flux, from flūzan, to flow, O. D. fluyssen, A-S. fleotan, Eng. to float.]

  1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. “The flushing noise of many waters.” Boyle.
  2. To come suddenly, as blood into the cheeks; to become suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
  3. To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
  4. To start up suddenly; to take wing, as a bird. [Obs.]

Flushing from one spray unto another. Browne.

Flŭsh, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To cause the blood to rush suddenly into the face; to redden suddenly; to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.

Nor flush with shame the passing virgin’s cheek. Gay.

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. Keats.

How faintly flushed, how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! Tennyson.

Sense 2. To make red or glowing; to redden.

Sense 3. To excite the spirits of; to animate with joy; to elate; to elevate.

The whigs . . . flushed with victory and prosperity. Macaulay.

Sense 4. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. Nares.

Sense 5. To wash or cleanse with water thrown on plentifully; as, to flush a sewer, or a house-front. Tomlinson.

To flush up joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point them level; to make them flush.

Flŭsh, n.

noun

n. 1. A sudden flowing; a rush; an afflux, as a jet or stream of water thrown suddenly on for cleansing purposes.

Driving the blood through them in manner of a wave or flush. Ray.

Sense 2. A rush of blood to the face; a suffusion of the face with blood from fear, modesty, or shame, or, more particularly, from excitement, passion, joy, &c.; a blush; a glow; a bloom.

Sense 3. A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.

Sense 4. [Fr. & Sp. flux.] A run of cards of the same suit.

Flŭsh, a.

adjective

a. 1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright. With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. Shak. 2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished; hence, displaying affluence; liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.

  1. (Arch. & Mech.) Having the surface even or level with the surface adjacent; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush bolt or joint.
  2. (Card playing.) Consisting of cards of the same suit; being of the same suit throughout.