[f. FLUSH a.1] The quality or condition of being flush in various senses.
1661. Gauden, Life Hooker, 37. Those … whose interest it is, like Hernshaws, to hide the meagerness of their bodies, by the flushness of their feathers.
1868. Seyd, Bullion, 52. An over-issue of Paper Money in a country may apparently create a momentary flushness.
1879. Sir G. G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 279. A series of humble village churches at the back of Dover Cliffs have windows in which the glass was flush with the exterior, and all the splay put inside…. This excessive flushness is less frequent as the style advances.
