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- uncountableThe quality of being flushy.
Terebinthina. Towards end of second week bright-red tongue, smooth and glossy, as if deprived of its papillæ; vertigo, fulness, and flushiness of face; […]
1878, S[amuel] Lilienthal, “Typhus and Typhoid Fevers”, in Homœopathic Therapeutics, New York, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.: Boericke & Tafel, →OCLC, page 6462 more examples
On soft cushion maternal He pillows the head / Of the babe, to sleep hush’d, in its flushiness glowing, / Tints the snows of its cheek with blush-rose diap’rèd: […]
1859, an Octogenarian [pseudonym; Hans Busk], “Lyric cxlvii.”, in Hebrew Lyrics, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., […]; Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 470The cold is both contagious and infectious. It is a germ that attacks the mucous membranes of nasal passages or throat. Often it is preceded by the feeling of flushiness or cold sensations, and by spasmodic reactions in the mucous membranes of the nasal passages.
1941 February 17, Edgar Cayce, “Common Cold”, in Gladys Davis Turner, Mae Gimbert St. Clair, compilers, Individual Reference File of Extracts from the Edgar Cayce Readings, Virginia Beach, Va.: Association for Research and Enlightenment, published 1976, →ISBN, page 61Synonyms: blushiness, blushingness, flushedness
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nounThe quality of being flushy.
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