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.
To blush and beautify the cheek again. --Shak.
2. To express or make known by blushing.
I'll blush you thanks. --Shak.
The rosy blush of love. --Trumbull.
2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.
--Lyttleton.
{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.