King James Bible Dictionary

BLUSH, verb intransitive

1. To redden in the cheeks or face; to be suddenly suffused with a red color in the cheeks or face, from a sense of guilt, shame, confusion, modesty, diffidence or surprise; followed by at or for, before the cause of blushing; as, blush at your vices; blush for your degraded country.

In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush

2. To bear a blooming red color, or any soft bright color; as the blushing rose.

He bears his blushing honors thick upon him.

Shakespeare has used this word in a transitive sense, to make red, and it may be allowable in poetry.

BLUSH, noun A red color suffusing the cheeks only, or the face generally, and excited by confusion, which may spring from shame, guilt, modesty, diffidence or surprise.

The rosy blush of love.

1. A red or reddish color.

2. Sudden appearance; a glance; a sense taken from the sudden suffusion of the face in blushing; ; as, a proposition appears absurd at first blush

BLUSH'ET, noun A young modest girl. [Not used.]

With shame
Ezra 9:6; Jeremiah 6:15; Jeremiah 8:12

BLUSH'ING, participle present tense Reddening in the cheeks or face; bearing a bright color.

BLUSH'LESS, adjective Unblushing; past blushing; impudent.

BLUSH'Y, adjective Like a blush; having the color of a blush.