flurryl (fluri)

t.; pret. and pp. flurried, ppr. flurrying. [ O lud! now, Mr. Fagyou Aurry one so! Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 2. It was mere instinct that prompted me to do this, for I was too much flurried to think. Poe , Tales, Í. 160. flurry2 (flur'i), a . In her ., same as fleury . flurtt, v. and n. An obsolete spelling of flirt . [flush. The several words spelled flush , being mostly dialectal, colloquial, or technical, and scantily recorded in early literature, have become partly confused with one another, and cannot now be entirely disentangled. Words originally different have acquired some meanings very nearly identical, while on the other hand there are some meanings not obviously related which are, neverthele , to be referred to one original. The separation made in the following articles is based on the present differences of sense, and is probably more minute than the etymology, if fully known, would require.] flush1 (flush), v. [Prob. of Scand. origin and ult. connected with flash1; cf. Sw. dial flo a, burn furiously, blaze, Norw. flosa, pa ion, vehemence, eagerne : see further under flash and flare. The meaning touches those of flush 2 and flush4, q. v., and in the phrase ' flush for anger' that of flush5 (see first extract there). The meaning has probably been affected by the different word blush.] I. in trans. To become suffused with color, as the face or the sky; redden; blush; glow. thrill or shock, as of feeling: as, to feel a flush of joy. It was not properly a pa ion, which is a subitaneous flushing: indeed that of his adultery was from suchra continued distemper, sedately stirred, and retained and considered of. The Opposition, flushed with victory and strongly supported by the public sympathy, proceeded to bring forward a succe ion of charges relating chiefly to pecuniary Macaulay , Warren Hastings. transactions.