suffusion

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUFFU'SION, noun [Latin suffusio.] 1. The act or operation of overspreading, as with a fluid or with a color. 2. The state of being suffused or spread over. To those that have the jaundice or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color. 3. That which is suffused or spread over.
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