Part 1229

<h1>Blush</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Blush</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To <b>blush</b> and beautify the cheek again. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To express or make known by blushing.</def>

<blockquote>I'll <b>blush</b> you thanks. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blush</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Blush</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.</def>

<blockquote>The rosy <b>blush</b> of love. <i>Trumbull.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.</def>

<blockquote>Light's last <b>blushes</b> tinged the distant hills. <i>Lyttleton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>At first blush</col>, or <col>At the first blush</col></mcol>, <cd>at the first appearance or view.</cd> "<i>At the first blush<i>, we thought they had been ships come from France." <i>Hakluyt</i>. <note>This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc., than of material things. "All purely identical propositions, obviously, and <i>at first blush<i>, appear." etc. <i>Locke</i>.</note> -- <col>To put to the blush</col>, <cd>to cause to blush with shame; to put to shame.</cd></cs>

<h1>Blusher</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Blush"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One that blushes.</def>

<h1>Blushet</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Blush"et</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A modest girl.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Blushful</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Blush"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of blushes.</def>

<blockquote>While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her <b>blushful</b> face. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blushing</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Blush"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.</def>

<blockquote>The dappled pink and <b>blushing</b> rose. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blushing</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Blush"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.</def>

<h1>Blushingly</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Blush"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; <as>as, to answer or confess blushingly</as>.</def>

<h1>Blushless</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Blush"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.</def>