Definitions from The Online Plain Text English Dictionary:
Flush
(a.) Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
(a.) Consisting of cards of one suit.
(a.) Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
(a.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
(adv.) So as to be level or even.
(n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
(n.) A hand of cards of the same suit.
(n.) A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
(n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
(n.) A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
(v. i.) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
(v. i.) To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
(v. i.) To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
(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.
(v. t.) To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
(v. t.) To excite; to animate; to stir.
(v. t.) To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)
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