[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That flows quickly; rushing.
1550. Bale, Image Both Ch., III. xix. C c iij b. It sounded vnto me euen as it hadde bene the flushynge noyse of manye waters.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. vi. 29. By the swift recourse of flushing blood.
2. Exhibiting or producing a sudden glow.
1728–46. Thomson, Spring, 95.
| At once, array’d | |
| In all the Colours of the flushing Year, | |
| By Nature’s swift and secret-working Hand, | |
| The Garden glows. |
1793. Southey, Tri. Woman, 307.
| No flushing fear that cheek o’erspread, | |
| When stern he strode o’er heaps of dead. |
1820. Shelley, Sensitive Pl., II. 13.
| She had no companion of mortal race, | |
| But her tremulous breath and her flushing face | |
| Told whilst the morn kissed the sleep from her eyes, | |
| That her dreams were less slumber than Paradise. |
