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  1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Blush \Blush\, v. t. 1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

    To blush and beautify the cheek again. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

    2. To express or make known by blushing. [1913 Webster]

    I'll blush you thanks. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

  2.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Blush \Blush\ (bl[u^]sh) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blushed (bl[u^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Blushing.] [OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, [=a]bl[=y]sian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to blaze, blush.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]

    To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

    In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster]

    He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]

    2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color. [1913 Webster]

    The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

    3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. [1913 Webster]

    Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --T. Gray. [1913 Webster]

  3.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Blush \Blush\, n. 1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty. [1913 Webster]

    The rosy blush of love. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster]

    2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint. [1913 Webster]

    Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills. --Lyttleton. [1913 Webster]

    At first blush, or At the first blush, at the first appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France." --Hakluyt.

    Note: This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc., than of material things. "All purely identical propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear," etc. --Locke.

    To put to the blush, to cause to blush with shame; to put to shame. [1913 Webster]