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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Blush \Blush\ (bl[ucr]sh) v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blushed} (bl[ucr]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blushing}.] [OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, [be]bl[ymac]sian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to blaze, blush.] 1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; 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. 2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color. The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. --Shak. 3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --T. Gray. | |
