flushes

Noun (1)

flush (plural flushes)

1. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
   • As when a Faulcon hath with nimble flight / Flowne at a flush of Ducks foreby the brooke […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun (2)

flush (countable and uncountable, plural flushes)

1. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
   • in manner of a wave or flush1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC
2. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
3. The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
4. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
   • When I would kiss thy hand, / The flush of anger'd shame / O'erflows thy calmer glances, / And o'er black brows drops down / A sudden-curved frown: […]1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Madeline”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 18
5. Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
   • the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset

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