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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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FLUSH, v.i.
FLUSH, v.t.
FLUSH, a.
FLUSH, n.
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. To become suddenly suffused, as the
cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
To snow red; to shine suddenly; to
glow.
In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed. Milton. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a
bird.
Flushing from one spray unto another. W. Browne. 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.
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, To make suddenly or temporarily red or
rosy, as if suffused with blood.
How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, To excite; to animate; to stir.
Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. South. 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. A
sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for
cleansing purposes.
In manner of a wave or flush. Ray. 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. 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.
A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a
thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of
joy.
A flock of birds suddenly started up or
flushed.
A hand of cards of the same suit.
Full
of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. Shak. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or
suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot. Unbroken or even in
surface] on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous
surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
Consisting of cards
of one suit.
Flush bolt. So as to be level
or even.
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.
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.
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