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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Blush \Blush\, v. t. 1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] To blush and beautify the cheek again. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To express or make known by blushing. [1913 Webster] I'll blush you thanks. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Blush \Blush\ (bl[u^]sh) v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blushed} (bl[u^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blushing}.] [OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, [=a]bl[=y]sian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to blaze, blush.] [1913 Webster] 1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. [1913 Webster] To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. --Milton. [1913 Webster] In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster] He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color. [1913 Webster] The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. [1913 Webster] Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --T. Gray. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Blush \Blush\, n. 1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty. [1913 Webster] The rosy blush of love. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster] 2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint. [1913 Webster] Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills. --Lyttleton. [1913 Webster] {At first blush}, or {At the first blush}, at the first appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France." --Hakluyt. Note: This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc., than of material things. "All purely identical propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear," etc. --Locke. {To put to the blush}, to cause to blush with shame; to put to shame. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: blush n 1: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health [syn: {bloom}, {blush}, {flush}, {rosiness}] 2: 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: become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"