flushed

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FLUSH'ED, participle passive 1. Overspread or tinged with a red color from the flowing of blood to the face. We say, the skin, face or cheek is flushed 2. Elated; excited; animated; as flushed with joy or success.
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