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.