flushs (flush)

[ When the morning flush Of pa ion and the first embrace had died Between them,... the master took Small notice. IMG:content-1552.png:[blocks in formation] After the flush of youth is over, a poet must have a wise method if he would move ahead. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 300. In the second 4. The hot stage of a fever. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] flush i (flush), a. [ He took my father gro ly, full of bread; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 3. IMG:content-1553.png:[blocks in formation] G. flie en intr. use of flush2 , equiv. to 'flow,' be confined to such expre ions as "the blood flushes into the face," where the verb is rather flush1, the idea of color and not of motion prevailing.] I. trans . 1. Same as flosh1 . Hal- liwell . [Prov. Eng.]-2. To drench copiously with water for the purpose of cleansing; wash out, as a sewer, with a copious flow of water. The drainage system must be so constructed as be frequently and thoroughly flushed. IMG:content-1554.png:[blocks in formation] All this uniform uncolour'd scene Shall be dismantled of its fleecy load, And flush into variety again. Then Aush'd her cheek with rosy light. Tennyson , Talking Oak. The afternoon was lovely, and it was flushing to a close. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 22. The sky increased in brightne as we watched. The orange flush'd into rose. B. Taylor , Northern Travel, p. 131. II. trans. To make suddenly red; suffuse with color; redden; cause to blush; cause to glow; color. Nor flush with shame the pa ing virgin's cheek. Gay , Trivia. Now flush'd with drunkenne , now with whoredom pale. Cowper , Tirocinium, 1. 833. The plane stretis and euery hie way Full of fluschis , dubbis, myre and clay. Gavin Douglas , tr. of Virgil, p. 201. 3. An increase of water in a river. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] The pulse of the arteries is not only caused by the pulsation of the heart, driving the blood through them in manner of a wave or flush , but by the coats of the arteries themselves. Ray. 4. Snow in a state of di olution; slush. Jamie son. [Scotch.]