Flush intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Flushed ; present participle & verbal noun Flushing .] [ Confer Middle English fluschen to fly up, penetrate, French fluz a flowing, English flux , dial. Swedish flossa to blaze, and English flash ; perhaps influenced by blush . √84.]
1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

The flushing noise of many waters.

Boyle.

It flushes violently out of the cock.

Mortimer.

2. To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.

3. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.

In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed.

Milton.

4. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.

Flushing from one spray unto another.

W. Browne.

Flush transitive verb
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.

Flush noun
1. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.

In manner of a wave or flush .

Ray.

2. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.

The flush of angered shame.

Tennyson.

3. Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.

4. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.

5. A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.

6. [ From F. or Spanish flux . Confer Flux .] A hand of cards of the same suit.

Flush adjective
1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.

Shak.

2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.

Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.

Arbuthnot.

3. (Arch. & Mech.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.

4. (Card Playing) Consisting of cards of one suit.

Flush bolt . (a) A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface. (b) A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith. -- Flush deck . (Nautical) See under Deck , noun , 1. -- Flush tank , a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.

Flush adverb So as to be level or even.

Flush transitive verb To cause by flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or through (a pond, meadow, sewer, etc.); to cleanse by means of a rush of water.

Flush intransitive verb (Mining) (a) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood. (b) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.

Flushboard noun Same as Flashboard .

Flusher noun
1. A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.

2. (Zoology) The red-backed shrike. See Flasher .

Flushing noun
1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the ... [ Eng.]

2. (Weaving) A surface formed of floating threads.

Flushingly adverb In a flushing manner.

Flushness noun The state of being flush; abundance.

Fluster transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Flustered ; present participle & verbal noun Flustering .] [ Confer Icelandic flaustra to be flustered, flaustr a fluster.] To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.

His habit or flustering himself daily with claret.

Macaulay.

Fluster intransitive verb To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.

The flstering , vainglorious Greeks.

South.

Fluster noun Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.

Flusteration noun The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. [ Colloq.]

Flustrate transitive verb [ See Fluster , transitive verb ] To fluster. [ Colloq.] Spectator.

Flustration noun The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. [ Colloq.] Richardson.

Flute noun [ Middle English floute , floite , from Old French flaüte , flahute , flahuste , French fl...te ; confer Late Latin flauta , Dutch fluit . See Flute , intransitive verb ]
1. A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.

The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.

Pope.

2. (Architecture) A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base , noun

3. A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.

4. A long French breakfast roll. Simonds.

5. A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.

Flute bit , a boring tool for piercing ebony, rosewood, and other hard woods. -- Flute pipe , an organ pipe having a sharp lip or wind-cutter which imparts vibrations to the column of air in the pipe. Knight.
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Flute (flūt) noun [ Confer French flûte a transport, Dutch fluit .] A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

Armed en flûte (Nav.) , partially armed.

Flute intransitive verb [ Middle English flouten , floiten , Old French flaüter , fleüter , flouster , French flûter , confer Dutch fluiten ; ascribed to an assumed Late Latin flautare , flatuare , from Latin flatus a blowing, from flare to blow. Confer Flout , Flageolet , Flatulent .] To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.

Flute transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fluted ; present participle & verbal noun Fluting .]
1. To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.

Knaves are men,
That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

Tennyson.

The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee.

Emerson.

2. To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.

Flûte à bec [ French] (Mus.) A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.

Fluted adjective
1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby.

2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.

Flutemouth noun (Zoology) A fish of the genus Aulostoma , having a much elongated tubular snout.

Fluter noun
1. One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.

2. One who makes grooves or flutings.

Fluting noun Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.

Fluting iron , a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron , or gaufering iron . Knight. -- Fluting lathe , a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.

Flutist noun [ Confer French flûtiste .] A performer on the flute; a flautist. Busby.

2. To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.

3. To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result.

No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit,
That once so fluttered , and that once so writ.

Pope.

4. To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.

Long we fluttered on the wings of doubtful success.

Howell.

His thoughts are very fluttering and wandering.

I. Watts.

Flutter transitive verb
1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.

2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.

Like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.

Shak.

Flutter noun
1. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.

The chirp and flutter of some single bird

Milnes. .

2. Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder. Pope.

Flutter wheel , a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.

Flutterer noun One who, or that which, flutters.

Flutteringly adverb In a fluttering manner.

Fluty adjective Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.

Fluvial adjective [ Latin fluvialis , from fluvius river, from fluere to flow: confer French fluvial . See Fluent .] Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

Fluvialist noun One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams. [ R.]

Fluviatic adjective [ Latin fluviaticus . See Fluvial .] Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile. Johnson.

Fluviatile adjective [ Latin fluviatilis , from fluvius river: confer French fluviatile .] Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants. Lyell.

Fluvio-marine adjective [ Latin fluvius river + English marine .] (Geol.) Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.

Fluviograph noun [ Latin fluvius river + -graph .] An instrument for measuring and recording automatically the rise and fall of a river.

Fluviometer noun [ Latin fluvius river + -meter .] An instrument for measuring the height of water in a river; a river gauge.

Flux (flŭks) noun [ Latin fluxus , from fluere , fluxum , to flow: confer French flux . See Fluent , and confer 1st & 2d Floss , Flush , noun , 6.]
1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body.

Arbuthnot.

Her image has escaped the flux of things,
And that same infant beauty that she wore
Is fixed upon her now forevermore.

Trench.

Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux .

Felton.

2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux .

3. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

4. (Chem. & Metal.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.

» White flux is the residuum of the combustion of a mixture of equal parts of niter and tartar. It consists chiefly of the carbonate of potassium, and is white. -- Black flux is the ressiduum of the combustion of one part of niter and two of tartar, and consists essentially of a mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal.

5. (Medicine) (a) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux . (b) The matter thus discharged.

6. (Physics) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.

Flux adjective [ Latin fluxus , past participle of fluere . See Flux , noun ] Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

The flux nature of all things here.

Barrow.

Flux transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fluxed (flŭkst); present participle & verbal noun Fluxing .]
1. To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.

He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or
fluxed into another world.

South.

2. To cause to become fluid; to fuse. Kirwan.

3. (Medicine) To cause a discharge from; to purge.

Fluxation noun The act of fluxing.

Fluxibility noun [ Confer Late Latin fluxibilitas fluidity.] The quality of being fluxible. Hammond.

Fluxible adjective [ Confer LL. fluxibilis fluid, Old French fluxible .] Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral. Holland.

-- Flux"i*ble*ness , noun

Fluxile adjective [ Latin fluxilis , adjective , fluid.] Fluxible. [ R.]

Fluxility noun State of being fluxible. [ Obsolete]

Fluxion noun [ Confer French fluxion .] The act of flowing. Cotgrave.

2. The matter that flows. Wiseman.

3. Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.

4. (Medicine) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.

5. A constantly varying indication.

Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials.

De Quincey.

6. (Math.) (a) The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential. (b) plural A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.

Fluxional adjective Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.

The merely human,the temporary and fluxional .

Coleridge.

Fluxional structure (Geol.) , fluidal structure.

Fluxionary adjective
1. Fluxional. Berkeley.

2. (Medicine) Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage.