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noun

Blush n.

A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty. "The rosy blush of love."

A red or reddish color; a rosy tint. "Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills."

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." 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.

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

verb

Blush v. t.

To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. (Obs.) "To blush and beautify the cheek again."

To express or make known by blushing. "I'll blush you thanks."

Blush v. i. (past & past part. blushed; pres. part. blushing)

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." "In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush." "He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise."

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."

To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen."

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"Blush" Quotes from Famous Books

... do the work thoroughly, prolonged DeGolyer's absence. Nearly three months had passed. Evening was come, and from a distant hill-top the returning traveler saw the steeple of Ulmata's church—a black mark on the fading blush of lingering twilight. A chilly darkness crept out of the valley. Hungry dogs barked in the dreary village. DeGolyer could see but a single light. It burned in the priest's house—a dark age, and as of yore, with all the light held by the church. The weary man liberated ...

— The Colossus - A Novel • Opie Read

... be, although the son of king, do not blush to go up to the book in church, and read and sing; but if you know nothing of yourself, ...

— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield

... now the turn of the stranger girl to blush, and at the same time she cast upon her new companion a slight glance of surprise. She then turned over with her fingers her new toys, glanced at the rocking-chair, and seemingly dissatisfied with all, ...

— Effie Maurice - Or What do I Love Best • Fanny Forester

... the reader in this novel is the author's fierce indignation against all shams, deceits, and social lies. Therefore he calls a spade a spade, and leaves you to blush if you are so inclined. The young girls whom he introduces are mostly misses in their teens, and his portrayal of them is physiological rather than pictorial. The points which he selects for comment are those which would particularly be noted by their ...

— Essays on Scandinavian Literature • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... how long he had had the watch; and, curiously enough, such curious things did sometimes almost providentially take place in a Court of Justice, he would call the very man that poor Mr. Simpleman had purchased it of five years ago, when he was almost, as you might say, in the first happy blush of boyhood (that 'blush of boyhood' went down with many of the jury who were fond of pathos); let the jury only fancy! but really would it be safe—really would it be safe, let him ask them upon their consciences, which in after life, perhaps years to come, when their heads ...

— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris

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