*flush*

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

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