*lush*

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + flush, n. ] In a flushed or blushing state. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + flush, a. ] On a level. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bank is . . . aflush with the sea. Swinburne. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blushed p. pr. & vb. n. Blushing. ] [ OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, ābl&ymacr_;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 ]

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 ]

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. 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 ]

adj. rose-colored.
Syn. -- blushful, rosy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One that blushes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A modest girl. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of blushes. [ 1913 Webster ]

While from his ardent look the turning Spring
Averts her blushful face. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy. [ R. ] “A blushy color.” Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. √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 ]

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 ]

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. ]

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 ]

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 ]

adv. So as to be level or even. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Flashboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The red-backed shrike. See Flasher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the &unr_; [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Weaving) A surface formed of floating threads. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flushing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being flush; abundance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Elated. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ From Russ. kalyushka piece of wood (worn in the nether lip). ] Designating, or pertaining to, a linguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Prob. an abbrev. of lushious, fr. luscious. ] 1. Full of juice or succulence. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having thick and luxurient vegetation. [ PJC ]

3. Characterized by abundance or luxurience; rich. [ PJC ]

n. [ Etymol uncertain; said to be fr. Lushington, name of a London brewer. ] 1. Liquor, esp. intoxicating liquor; drink. [ Slang ] C. Lever. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. an habitual drunkard. [ PJC ]

n. See Lussheburgh. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in blushing; to surpass in rosy color. T. Shipman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To flush to excess. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. pluche, peluche (cf. It. peluzzo), fr. L. pilus hair. See pile hair, and cf. Peruke. ] A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like plush; soft and shaggy. H. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sw. slaska to paddle in water, slask wet, filth. ] [ Written also slosh. ] 1. Soft mud. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mach.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Slushed p. pr. & vb. n. Slushing. ] 1. To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. “A dark, drizzling, slushy day.” Blackw. Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not blushing; shameless. -- Un*blush"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]