Lexicographical Neighbors of Flushy
Literary usage of Flushy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"flushy [flesh'i], adj. Young, tender grass, or grass which grows suddenly after
rains, and scours tho cattle, is called flushy. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"I have never heard the word applied except to animals. flushy ... or grass which
grows suddenly after rains, and scours tho cattle, is called.flushy. ..."
3. A Treatise on Homœopathic Practice of Medicine: Comprised in a Repertory for by Hunting Sherrill (1854)
"When the eruption or flushy redness appears, give Bell. and this may be given
alone every two or three hours, or if there is a. good deal of fever, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Neat began to breathe short, when, WAP ! came a flushy right-hander, Plump on
his fore-head, and, lo ! tbc stream of the claret was flowing, 'Sanguine as ..."
5. The Dial by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1841)
"... the want of courage, the want of faith, the hollowness of Church and State,
the shallow- ness of teachers, " Whose lenn and flushy son^s Grate on their ..."
6. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "First Lessons in by Asa Gray (1880)
"Or we may regard it as a bud, with thick and flushy scales. Compare a Lily-bulb (Fig.
73) with the strong scaly buds of the Hickory and Horsechestnut (Fig. ..."
7. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"He plays, as it is called, very flushy, but so much upon system, that I have been
told he drinks nothing but water, that his head may be always perfectly ..."
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