Word Meanings - DISTREAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.

BLUSH
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
BLUSHLESS
Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.
VIRTUOUS
1. Possessing or exhibiting virtue. Specifically: -- Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave. Old Priam's son, amongst them all, was chiefly virtuous. Chapman. Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious;
BLUSHINGLY
In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
BLUSHET
A modest girl. B. Jonson.
BLUSHER
One that blushes.
BLUSHING
Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.
BLUSHY
Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy. "A blushy color." Harvey.
BLUSHFUL
Full of blushes. While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face. Thomson.
UNBLUSHING
Not blushing; shameless. -- Un*blush"ing*ly, adv.
ABLUSH
Blushing; ruddy.
OUTBLUSH
To exceed in blushing; to surpass in rosy color. T. Shipman.