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Full of juice or succulence. Tennyson. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! Shak.

See Lussheburgh. [Obs.]

Blushing; ruddy.

In a flushed or blushing state.

on; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.…

One that blushes.

A modest girl. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Full of blushes. While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face. Thomson.

Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.

Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.

Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy. [R.] "A blushy color." Harvey.

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.

Elated. Young.

Designating, or pert. to, a linguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues.