Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Flush \Flush\, v. t.
1. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm
with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the
purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
2. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the
blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.
--Gay.
Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,
Flushing his brow. --Keats.
3. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if
suffused with blood.
How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte
Rosa, hanging there! --Tennyson.
4. To excite; to animate; to stir.
Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his
ambition. --South.
5. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. --Nares.
{To flush a joints} (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the
level; to make them flush.