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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flush, v. t.
 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.
 6. To cause to 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 flush a joints Masonry, to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.