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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flush \Flush\, n. 1. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes. [1913 Webster] In manner of a wave or flush. --Ray. [1913 Webster] 2. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow. [1913 Webster] The flush of angered shame. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset. [1913 Webster] 4. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy. [1913 Webster] 5. A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed. [1913 Webster] 6. [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. {Flux}.] A hand of cards, all of the same suit; -- especially significant in poker, where five cards of the same suit constitute a flush, which beats a straight but is beaten by a full house or four of a kind. [1913 Webster +PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flush \Flush\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flushed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flushing}.] [Cf. OE. fluschen to fly up, penetrate, F. fluz a flowing, E. flux, dial. Sw. flossa to blaze, and E. flash; perh. influenced by blush. [root]84.] 1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. [1913 Webster] The flushing noise of many waters. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] It flushes violently out of the cock. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 2. To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush. [1913 Webster] 3. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow. [1913 Webster] In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 4. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird. [1913 Webster] Flushing from one spray unto another. --W. Browne. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flush \Flush\, v. i. (Mining) (a) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood. (b) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flush \Flush\, v. t. 1. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement. [1913 Webster] Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek. --Gay. [1913 Webster] Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. --Keats. [1913 Webster] 3. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. [1913 Webster] How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 4. To excite; to animate; to stir. [1913 Webster] Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. --South. [1913 Webster] 5. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. --Nares. [1913 Webster] 6. To cause to flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or through (a pond, meadow, sewer, etc.); to cleanse by means of a rush of water. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {To flush a joints} (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flush \Flush\, a. 1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright. [1913 Webster] With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. [1913 Webster] Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 3. (Arch. & Mech.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint. [1913 Webster] 4. (Card Playing) Consisting of cards of one suit. [1913 Webster] {Flush bolt}. (a) A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface. (b) A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith. {Flush deck}. (Naut.) See under {Deck}, n., 1. {Flush tank}, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flush \Flush\, adv. So as to be level or even. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: flush adv 1: squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face" 2: in the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table" adj 1: of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane; "a door flush with the wall"; "the bottom of the window is flush with the floor" 2: having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations" [syn: {affluent}, {flush}, {loaded}, {moneyed}, {wealthy}] n 1: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: {flower}, {prime}, {peak}, {heyday}, {bloom}, {blossom}, {efflorescence}, {flush}] 2: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health [syn: {bloom}, {blush}, {flush}, {rosiness}] 3: sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders) [syn: {hot flash}, {flush}] 4: a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit 5: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: {bang}, {boot}, {charge}, {rush}, {flush}, {thrill}, {kick}] 6: a sudden rapid flow (as of water); "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words" [syn: {flush}, {gush}, {outpouring}] 7: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) [syn: {blush}, {flush}] v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: {blush}, {crimson}, {flush}, {redden}] 2: flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river" 3: glow or cause to glow with warm color or light; "the sky flushed with rosy splendor" 4: make level or straight; "level the ground" [syn: {flush}, {level}, {even out}, {even}] 5: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" [syn: {flush}, {scour}, {purge}] 6: irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn: {sluice}, {flush}] 7: cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows" From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: flush v. 1. [common] To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation. ?All that nonsense has been flushed.? 2. [Unix/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an fflush(3) call. This is not an abort or deletion as in sense 1, but a demand for early completion! 3. To leave at the end of a day's work (as opposed to leaving for a meal). ?I'm going to flush now.? ?Time to flush.? 4. To exclude someone from an activity, or to ignore a person. ?Flush? was standard ITS terminology for aborting an output operation; one spoke of the text that would have been printed, but was not, as having been flushed. It is speculated that this term arose from a vivid image of flushing unwanted characters by hosing down the internal output buffer, washing the characters away before they could be printed. The Unix/C usage, on the other hand, was propagated by the fflush(3) call in C's standard I/O library (though it is reported to have been in use among BLISS programmers at {DEC} and on Honeywell and IBM machines as far back as 1965). Unix/C hackers found the ITS usage confusing, and vice versa. [crunchly-5] Crunchly gets {flush}ed.