Blush v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blushed p. pr. & vb. n. Blushing.]
1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.
To the nuptial bower
I led her blushing like the morn. --Milton.
In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. --Buckminster.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous worth,
That blushed at its own praise. --Cowper.
2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set,
But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. --Shak.
3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --T. Gray.