blush

BLUSH, verb intransitive 1. To redden in the cheeks or face; to be suddenly suffused with a red color in the cheeks or face, from a sense of guilt, shame, confusion, modesty, diffidence or surprise; followed by at or for, before the cause of blushing; as, blush at your vices; blush for your degraded country. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush 2. To bear a blooming red color, or any soft bright color; as the blushing rose. He bears his blushing honors thick upon him. Shakespeare has used this word in a transitive sense, to make red, and it may be allowable in poetry. BLUSH, noun A red color suffusing the cheeks only, or the face generally, and excited by confusion, which may spring from shame, guilt, modesty, diffidence or surprise. The rosy blush of love. 1. A red or reddish color. 2. Sudden appearance; a glance; a sense taken from the sudden suffusion of the face in blushing; ; as, a proposition appears absurd at first blush