Cards. [f. FLUSH sb.3]

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  1.  † a. Of a player: Holding a flush, i.e., cards all of the same color or suit (obs.). b. Of a hand or sequence: Forming or including a flush.

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  a.  1591.  Florio, Second Fruites, 71. I was neither flush nor fiue and fiftie yet.

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a. 1612.  Harington, Epigr., II. 99.

        Now for the greatest rest he hath the push:
But Crassus stopt a Club and so was flush.

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  b.  1883.  Proctor, Poker Principles and Chance Laws, in Longm. Mag., II. Sept., 499. Highest and best of all, a flush sequence—that is, a sequence of high cards all of the same suit.

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  2.  transf. (nonce-use). Of corresponding quality throughout.

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a. 1658.  Cleveland, Young Man to Old Woman, 33.

        I love to wear Clothes that are flush,
Not prefacing old Rags with Plush.

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