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To exceed in blushing; to surpass in rosy color. T. Shipman.

To flush to excess. [R.]

A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. Cowper.

Like plush; soft and shaggy. H. Kingsley.

To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.

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.

Not blushing; shameless. -- Un*blush"ing*ly, adv.

e as a heart stimulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.

the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.

waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

Shameless; unblushing. [Obs.] Spenser.

A woman who confers a benefit. His benefactress blushes at the deed. Cowper.

To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.

s on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow. A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray.

om; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith.

A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. [Written also brestsummer and bressummer.]

will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

d of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.