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▪ I. flushing, n.|ˈflʌʃɪŋ|
[f. Flushing (Du. Vlissingen) a port in Holland.]
A kind of rough and thick woollen cloth, so called from the place where it was first manufactured.
1833Marryat P. Simple x, Pea jackets..made of..Flushing. 1879Unif. Reg. in Navy List July (1882) 496/2 To be of flushing, with seven buttons..on each side.
attrib.1832Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 242 A..flushing jacket. 1837Marryat Dog-fiend iii, Wrapped up in Flushing garments [he] looked..like a bear.
▪ II. ˈflushing, vbl. n.
[f. flush v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb flush in various senses.
†a. A rushing or splashing (of water). Obs.
1573Twynne æneid. x. D d iv b, His monstrous saluage lims through froth, through fome with flushing launch.
b. The cleansing (of a sewer, etc.) by a rush of water.
1853Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict., Flushing. 1884Times (weekly ed.) 14 Nov. 12/2 The flushing of sewers is..a most important part, of the rapid removal of refuse.
c. Of a plant: The sending out of new shoots.
1810Scott Lady of Lake iii. xvi, Our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. 1894Times 6 Apr. 4/6 [Tea] plants exhibiting great difference in form and luxuriance of growth and flushing.
2. A sudden flowing (of blood to the face); a wave (of heat); hence, reddening, redness.
1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 22 Walke about, and coole this flushing in the face. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. ii. 155. 1677 Lond. Gaz. No. 1180/4 A tall slender Man, with a great flushing in his face. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments i. §2. 9 The Signs of the Functions of the Stomach being deprav'd, are..a Flushing in the Countenance [etc.]. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 11 Its approaches are marked by head-ach..flushings of heat. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 348 Local flushings caused by small doses of the poison.
3. A flush or wave (of emotion, success, etc.).
a1679T. Goodwin Wks. V. ii. 163 It was not properly a Passion, which is a subitaneous flushing. 1711Addison Spect. No. 351 ⁋15 The transient Flushings of Guilt and Joy, which the Poet represents in our first Parents upon their eating the forbidden Fruit. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. (1783) IV. 78 This strange mortal..was so truly elevated by the present flushings of his prosperity, that he said and did [etc.].
4. attrib. and Comb.: as flushing cistern, flushing gate, flushing machine; also flushing-rim (House-plumbing), ‘a hollow rim pierced with holes surrounding a basin, through which water can be turned into the basin to flush it out’ (Cent. Dict.); flushing-wheel = flush-wheel.
1894Daily News 9 Oct. 5/2 To raise the capacity of *flushing cisterns from two to three gallons.
1856Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. XVI. 43 *Flushing Machines, for cleansing house drains and sewers.
1884G. E. Waring in Century Mag. Dec. 263/1 The closet is supplied with water through an ordinary *flushing-rim.
1884Health Exhib. Catal. 98/2 Automatic *Flushing Wheel for utilizing waste water from Baths.
▪ III. flushing, ppl. a.|ˈflʌʃɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That flows quickly; rushing.
1550Bale Image both Ch. iii. xix. C c iij b, It sounded..as it hadde bene the flushynge noyse of manye waters. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. vi. 29 The swift recourse of flushing blood.
2. Exhibiting or producing a sudden glow.
1728–46Thomson Spring 95 Array'd In all the colours of the flushing year. 1793Southey Tri. Woman 307 No flushing fear that cheek o'erspread. 1820Shelley Sensitive Pl. ii. 14 Her tremulous breath and her flushing face. |