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t.] To encourage; elate; excite the spirits of; animate with joy: originally the same as flesh. The Indian Neighbourhood, who were mortal Enemies to the Spaniards, and had been flusht by their Succe es against them, through the a istance of the Privateers, for several years, were our fast Friends, and ready to receive and a ist us. Dampier , Voyages, I. 158. Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his am South , Sermons, II. 104. a flurry in an a embly. The paper never did better service than when in the flurries and spasms of political excitement it kept its head, and its cheerful confidence that the Republic was safe. G. S. Merriam, S. Bowles, II. 37. But the Aurry of the di ipation he had been through. made him feel so much alive that he felt no sense of J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 204. loneline . During the first week in May there was a slight flurry in money, and an advance to 7 per cent, on call, caused by the rioting at Chicago. Applet on's Ann . Сус ., 1886, p. 335. 2. Specifically, of a whale, the death-agony; the spasmodic action of the animal while expiring. The head usually rises and falls, and the flukes strike the surface of the water rapidly, while the animal swims in a circle, till finally it rolls on its side dead. Both whales were seen spouting blood, and soon after pyramids of foam showed that they were in their flurry. C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 267. 3. A sudden brief movement of air; an irregular blast or gust: as, a flurry of wind.-4. A fluttering a emblage of things, as snow-flakes, snow-flakes, carried by or pa ing through the air. And, like a Aurry of snow on the whistling wind of Decem- ber , Swift and sudden and keen came a flight of feathery ar- Long fellow , Miles Standish, vii. Sudden Aurries of snow-birds, rows. Like brown leaves whirling by. Lowell, First Snow-Fall. 5. In calico - printing, a state of fro you r developed by some colors in the proce of printing, due in some to quick printing and in others to slow printing. It is obviated by the use of glycerin, oil, turpentine, or alcohol.