Overflush
adj, adv, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Surplus assets.
"In his judgment in this case, the vice Chancellor Wigram refers to my decision in Woods v. Woods, in which I held, that under a gift of "all overflush to my wife towards her support and her family," the widow took the property subject to a trust for the family."
- 2 An excess of something.
"Lady Albinia was allowed by all who knew her, to be one of the most admirable correctives to an overflush of youth ."
- 3 A flush that appears over something.; A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
"If the bright ground be moved to and fro, this overflush of color may be, sometimes beautifully, shown, following the line or edge of the moving mass of strong color; and most distinct near the edge."
- 4 A flush that appears over something.; A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
"While an overflush of marvellous grace Would master, a-sudden, all his face, Till the delicate nostril curved and swelled, and the glance an eloquent sparkle held, And a sense of song would come and go, Such as dreamers watched by Ariel know."
- 5 A flush that appears over something.; A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
"There was an overflush and I tried to run straight into it. Most racers set up before a flush and turn into it."
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- 6 The act of overflushing.
"This increase of typhoid fever was attributed to an overflush of the intercepting sewer in November, 1897, in consequence of which sewage was discharged into the Schuylkill river near the intake of the Queen Lane Pumping Station."
- 7 A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
"A treatment volume, in field usage is currently 1100 gals of chemical plus 10,000 bbls. of the aquifer water as an overflush."
- 8 The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
"With this type of proppant transport, the proppant bank will not be destroyed during the overflush of the diverter."
- 1 To flush to excess.; To flood with too much liquid while cleansing.
"It is a bad plan to overflush ewes, as they usually suffer more from loss of flesh during winter. The best plan is to get them fleshy, and then keep them thriving whilst with the ram."
- 2 To flush to excess.; To flush too many toilets.
"No substance goes out from you by perspiration, except the noxious matter that you ought to get rid of; and you might as well ask if the dinners of a city might not be diminished were its sewers overflushed."
- 3 To flush to excess.; To flood or inundate.
"But Men when overflush'd with Drink, Are feldom capable to think."
- 4 To flush over.; To cover with or suffuse with a tinge or glow of color.
"[…] still they have a fragrance of nature about them, and a freshness, such as Scottish noses snuff up from bleak moors and green fields, envying not at all the strong aroma that flows from exuberant fields overflushed with the living gold and purple of a rich tropical vegetation."
- 5 To flush over.; To cover the face with blushing or a flush.
"When Bernard de Avelyne concluded his ballad of Chivalry, the brightness that overflushed his face became gradually darker, his palsied hands forsook the harp, he buried his face in his hands and his hoary hair, and seemed to labour under that bodily as well as mental depression which sometimes succeeds sudden unwonted exertion."
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- 6 To flush over.; To suffuse.
"Men, it is true, have probably far exceeded them in the actual amount of verse overflushed with feeling which they have created."
- 7 To flush over.; To wash over.
"As Eloquence vpon a trotting nagge Out-ambles Wisdom in a morris daunce, Or as the waves doe overflush the crag — Gie rocks of fortune on the shores of Fraunce;"
- 8 To force overflush into a system in order to clear out the active fluids.
"Overflush with 150 barrels of water ."
- 1 Too flush; having an excess of something (too much money if nothing else is specified)
"You're a poor man, I dare say. You don't look as if you were overflush of money."
- 2 Protruding or sticking out rather than flush and smooth.
"That is probably an overflush allusion ."
- 1 Beyond the level that is flush and smooth.
"The last two to three layers or 14 in. of the groove is filled up slightly overflush using 316-in. hard rod."
Example
More examples"In his judgment in this case, the vice Chancellor Wigram refers to my decision in Woods v. Woods, in which I held, that under a gift of "all overflush to my wife towards her support and her family," the widow took the property subject to a trust for the family."
Etymology
From over- + flush.
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