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Blush \Blush\, v. t.
1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
[Obs.]
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To blush and beautify the cheek again. --Shak.
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2. To express or make known by blushing.
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I'll blush you thanks. --Shak.
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Blush \Blush\ (bl[u^]sh) v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blushed}
(bl[u^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blushing}.] [OE. bluschen to
shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a
torch, [=a]bl[=y]sian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to
blaze, blush.]
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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.
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To the nuptial bower
I led her blushing like the morn. --Milton.
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In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the
young offender is ashamed to blush. --Buckminster.
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He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous worth,
That blushed at its own praise. --Cowper.
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2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
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The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set,
But stayed, and made the western welkin blush.
--Shak.
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3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other
flowers.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --T.
Gray.
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Blush \Blush\, n.
1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a
sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
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The rosy blush of love. --Trumbull.
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2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
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Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.
--Lyttleton.
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{At first blush}, or {At the first blush}, at the first
appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they
had been ships come from France." --Hakluyt.

Note: This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc.,
than of material things. "All purely identical
propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear,"
etc. --Locke.

{To put to the blush}, to cause to blush with shame; to put
to shame.
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