資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flush \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.

Flushing \Flush"ing\, n.
   1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; --
      commonly in the ? [Eng.]

   2. (Weaving) A surface formed of floating threads.