Hypertext Webster Gateway: "blush"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.]
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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Blush \Blush\, v. t.
1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
[Obs.]

To blush and beautify the cheek again. --Shak.

2. To express or make known by blushing.

I'll blush you thanks. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Blush \Blush\, n.
1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a
sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

blush
n 1: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of
good health [syn: {bloom}, {flush}, {rosiness}]
2: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt
or shame or modesty) [syn: {flush}]
v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed
when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: {crimson},
{flush}, {redden}]
2: become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold
winter air"

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