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Flush   /fləʃ/   Listen
noun
Flush  n.  
1.
A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes. "In manner of a wave or flush."
2.
A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow. "The flush of angered shame."
3.
Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
4.
A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
5.
A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
6.
A hand of cards, all of the same suit; especially significant in poker, where five cards of the same suit constitute a flush, which beats a straight but is beaten by a full house or four of a kind.


verb
Flush  v. t.  
1.
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
2.
To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement. "Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek." "Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow."
3.
To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. "How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there!"
4.
To excite; to animate; to stir. "Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition."
5.
To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
6.
To cause to flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or through (a pond, meadow, sewer, etc.); to cleanse by means of a rush of water.
To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.


Flush  v. i.  (past & past part. flushed; pres. part. flushing)  
1.
To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. "The flushing noise of many waters." "It flushes violently out of the cock."
2.
To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
3.
To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow. "In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed."
4.
To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird. "Flushing from one spray unto another."


Flush  v. i.  (Mining)
(a)
To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
(b)
To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.


adjective
Flush  adj.  
1.
Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright. "With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May."
2.
Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. "Lord Strut was not very flush in ready."
3.
(Arch. & Mech.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
4.
(Card Playing) Consisting of cards of one suit.
Flush bolt.
(a)
A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface.
(b)
A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith.
Flush deck. (Naut.) See under Deck, n., 1.
Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.


adverb
Flush  adv.  So as to be level or even.





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"Flush" Quotes from Famous Books



... fair chance that on our way into the Rift Valley we should flush one or another of the larger animals. Preparations for such a contingency were accordingly made before starting from Sewell's farm. Canteens and iron drums were filled with water, because the next camp would be a dry one. The cinematograph, cameras, and all ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... cylinder of the standard size (Fig. 42); this is prolonged in a pin of the same diameter as the shaft of the dart. A piece of pith transfixed by the pin is shaved with a sharp knife until its surface is flush with that ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall
... declared that the State ought to attempt no improvement which it could not afford to construct and to own. He favored a few specific enterprises and the making of careful surveys and estimates before any others should be taken up. But it was the very height of "flush times" in Illinois, and the legislature added millions to the vast sums in which the State was already committed to the support of canals, railroads, river improvements, and banks. It was but a few weeks from the adjournment in March to the great financial panic of 1837, ...
— Stephen Arnold Douglas • William Garrott Brown
... the seal and read. As his eyes went down the lines, a deep flush crept through the tan of his face, and the paper trembled in ...
— The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad • Joseph A. Altsheler
... amount of strawberries. Sid Strang and the hotel bench brigade assisted. They made engagements to take Pearlie and her friend down river next day, and to the ball game, and planned innumerable picnics, gazing meanwhile into the leading lady's eyes. There grew in the cheeks of the leading lady a flush that was not brought about by the pink slip, or the Japanese lanterns, or the ...
— Buttered Side Down • Edna Ferber


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