[f. FLUSH v.1] A flight of birds suddenly started up. Also transf.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 54.
| As when a Faulcon hath with nimble flight | |
| Flowne at a flush of Ducks. |
1668. H. More, Divine Dialogues, II. x. (1713), 118. When one shoots at a flock of Pigeons, or a flush of Ducks, do you expect that Divine Providence should so guide the shot that it should hit none but what it kill’d outright, and not send any away with a broken Leg?
1868. Kinglake, Crimea (1877), III. i. 146. Naturally he would be shamed to think that many thousands of the once famous Russian infantry had been yielding up the Great Redoubt to a body which might almost be called a mere flush of skirmishers.
