Flush word meaning and definition

[noun] sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
[noun] a sudden rapid flow (as of water); "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words"
[noun] the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a rush!"; "he does it for kicks"
[noun] a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
[noun] the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
[noun] a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
[noun] sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
[adv] squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face"
[adv] in the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table"
[adjective] having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"
[verb] turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
[verb] cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows"
[verb] flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river"
[verb] irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
[verb] rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
[verb] polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"

\Flush\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flushed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flushing}.] [Cf. OE. fluschen to fly up, penetrate, F. fluz a flowing, E. flux, dial. Sw. flossa to blaze, and E. flash; perh. influenced by blush. [root]84.] 1. 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. 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. --Milton. 4. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird. Flushing from one spray unto another. --W. Browne.
\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. --Gay. Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. --Keats. 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! --Tennyson. 4. To excite; to animate; to stir. Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. --South. 5. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. --Nares. {To flush a joints} (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.
\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. --Ray. 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. --Tennyson. 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. [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. {Flux}.] A hand of cards of the same suit.
\Flush\, a. 1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright. With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. --Shak. 2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. --Arbuthnot. 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.
\Flush\, adv. So as to be level or even.
\Flush\, v. t. To cause by 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.
\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.

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