FLUSHING
\flˈʌʃɪŋ], \flˈʌʃɪŋ], \f_l_ˈʌ_ʃ_ɪ_ŋ]\
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By Noah Webster.
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A transient reddening of the face that may be due to fever, certain drugs, exertion, stress, or a disease process.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A glow of red, as in the face; as, the disease is characterized by frequent flushings of the face; in weaving, a thread which, in the process of twilling, spans several threads of the warp without intersection; a floating; a kind of stout woollen cloth; "Some stout skipper paces his deck in a suit of flushing."-C. Reade.
By Daniel Lyons
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).