Suffusion

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suffusion \Suf*fu"sion\, n. [L. suffusio: cf. F. suffusion.]
     1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being
        suffused; an overspreading.
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              To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion


              of eyes, objects appear of that color. --Ray.
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     2. That with which a thing is suffused.
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     3. (Zool.) A blending of one color into another; the
        spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of
        birds.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  suffusion
       n : the process of permeating or infusing something with a
           substance [syn: {permeation}, {pervasion}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "suffusion":
     blush, blushing, coloring, crimsoning, decoction, diffusion, flush,
     flushing, imbuement, impregnation, infiltration, infusion,
     instillation, instillment, interpenetration, mantling, marination,
     overrunning, overspreading, overswarming, penetration, permeation,
     pervasion, pudency, pudicity, reddening, saturation, soaking,
     steeping, transfusion