ppl. a. [f. FLUSH v.2 + -ED1.]
1. Suffused with red or ruddy color.
1690. Lond. Gaz., No. 2576/4. A Maid-Servant … extremely red and flushed, round her Mouth.
1793. Beddoes, Lett. to Darwin, 53. I met with a medical friend, who was much struck with the flushed appearance of my countenance.
1849. Ruskin, Sev. Lamps, iv. § 39. 129. The most exquisite harmonies may be composed of these simple elements: some soft and full, of flushed and melting spaces of colour.
1882. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, I. i. 7. I knew what the flushed cheek and the brilliant eye, the damp cold hand, and the short cough meant. I knew that the hand of death was on him whom I loved more than all the world besides.
2. Heated, excited.
1749. Smollett, Regicide, III. viii.
| Athol. By Heav’n! their flush’d intemperance will yield | |
| Occasion undisturbed. |
1893. Critic (Boston), XIX. 25 March, 184/1. For him poetry was not the sport of the imagination, the solitary caprice of a flushed fantasy, but a copy in little of prevailing manners.
