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See Slush, Slushy.

Mud; mire; soft mud; slush. Mortimer. Tennyson.

Miry; slushy.

Slush. [Prov. Eng.]

Slushy. [Prov. Eng.] Pennant.

A forced or affected smile; a simper. The bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered. Sir W. Scott.

Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

tripod, for supporting a compass. -- Staff angle (Arch.), a square rod of wood standing flush with the wall on each of its sides, at the external angles of plastering, to prevent their being damaged. -- The staff of life, bread. "Bread is the staff of life." Swift. -- Staff tree (Bot.), any plant of the genus Celast…

ndestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope. The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth, With steel invades the brother's life by stealth. Dryden. I told him of your stealth unto this wood. Shak.

r sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.

ll or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes. When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. Pope.

A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.

ent; on that account. Every error is a stain to the beauty of nature; for which cause it blusheth thereat. Hooker.

Consequently; by consequence. He blushes; therefore he is guilty. Spectator.

An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. [Cant]

To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. Pope. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Pope. The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go. Chaucer.

olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky. Their harps are of the umber shade That hides the blush of waking day. J. R. Drake.

ining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush. "Virgin shame." Cowley. Innocence and virgin modesty . . . That would be wooed, and unsought be won. Milton.

. . wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray.

In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.