Part 4424

<i>Quarles.</i>

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<hw>Flush</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flushed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flushing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. OE. <ets>fluschen</ets> to fly up, penetrate, F. <ets>fluz</ets> a flowing, E. <ets>flux</ets>, dial. Sw. <ets>flossa</ets> to blaze, and E. <ets>flash</ets>; perh. influenced by <ets>blush</ets>. \'fb84.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; <as>as, blood <ex>flushes</ex> into the face</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>flushing</b> noise of many waters. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It <b>flushes</b> violently out of the cock. <i>Mortimer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.</def>

<blockquote>In her cheek, distemper <b>flushing</b> glowed. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To star<?/ up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.</def>

<blockquote><b>Flushing</b> from one spray unto another. <i>W. Browne.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Flush</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; <as>as, to <ex>flush</ex> the meadows</as>; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; <as>as, to <ex>flush</ex> a sewer</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.</def>

<blockquote>Nor <b>flush</b> with shame the passing virgin's cheek. <i>Gay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, <b>Flushing</b> his brow. <i>Keats.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.</def>

<blockquote>How faintly <b>flushed</b>. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To excite; to animate; to stir.</def>

<blockquote>Such things as can only feed his pride and <b>flush</b> his ambition. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.</def>

<i>Nares.</i>

<cs><col>To flush a joints</col> <fld>(Masonry)</fld>, <cd>to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Flush</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.</def>

<blockquote>In manner of a wave or <b>flush</b>. <i>Ray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>flush</b> of angered shame. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; <as>as, the <ex>flush</ex> on the side of a peach; the <ex>flush</ex> on the clouds at sunset.</as></def>