The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flush \Flush\, a.
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Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.
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Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.
--Arbuthnot. (Arch. & Mech.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
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(Card Playing) Consisting of cards of one suit. Flush bolt.
A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface.
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A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith.
Flush deck. (Naut.) See under Deck, n., 1.
Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.
Usage examples of "flush tank".
The bathroom had nothing but what you'd expect, and the flush tank hadn't yielded any secrets suspended by a string from the float, or inside it.
My stomach felt like a flush tank on the verge of starting its cycle.
But at least the shitter down the hall had a modern flush tank, and they had a water tap you could use to refill the basin that went with the corner washstands in the small but fairly tidy rooms on the second floor.
To brace himself against the pain, Lyons arched backward and gripped the pipe behind him that ran vertically from the toilet to the porcelain flush tank mounted near the ceiling.