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grail | blush |

As an initialism grail

is (space|nasa).

As a noun blush is

an act of blushing or blush can be the collective noun for a group of boys.

As a verb blush is

to redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.

grail

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) gradalis.

Noun

(en noun)
  • The Holy Grail.
  • The object of an extended or difficult quest.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grail]
  • :Becoming an astronaut was his grail .

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) grael, ultimately from (etyl) graduale.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
  • * Strype
    • antiphonals, missals, grails , processionals, etc.

    Etymology 3

    Origin uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of (gravel).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
  • *:Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile , / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].

    • Etymology 4

    Compare (etyl) graite slender.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the small feathers of a hawk.

    • Anagrams

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    blush

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) blyscan . Cognate with Old Norse .

    Noun

    (es)
  • An act of blushing.
  • (uncountable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. Confer rouge.
  • A color between pink and cream.
    • Derived terms
    * blush is off the rose * at first blush

    Verb

    (es)
  • To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
  • * Milton
    • To the nuptial bower / I led her blushing like the morn.
  • * 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
    • But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush . He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.
  • To become red.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, / But stayed, and made the western welkin blush .
  • To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To blush and beautify the cheek again.
  • To express or make known by blushing.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll blush you thanks.
  • To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
  • * T. Gray
    • Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
    Synonyms
    * flushing * reddening

    Related terms

    * erythrophobia (fear of blushing)

    Etymology 2

    1486 Dame Julia Barnes. The Book of St Albans.

    Noun

    (es)
  • The collective noun for a group of boys.
    • A blush of boys.
    Usage notes
    This is probably a fanciful expression and is not in common use.
    References
    * Noun sense: 1986 Oxford Reference Dictionary: Appendix

    Anagrams

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