Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BLUSH, n.

1. 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. – Trumbull.
2. A red or reddish color.
3. Sudden appearance; a glance; a sense taken from the sudden suffusion of the face in blushing; as, a proposition appears absurd at first blush. – Locke.