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To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. The flushing noise of many waters. Boyle. It flushes violently out of the cock. Mortimer.

Same as Flashboard.

A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.

A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the [Eng.]

In a flushing manner.

The state of being flush; abundance.

In a flushed or blushing state.

Elated. Young.

To flush to excess. [R.]

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

e 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.

as 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.

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

The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.

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.]

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.

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

Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant. O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate. Pope. Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress. Mrs. H. H. Jac…

laced temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. [U.S.]