Word Meanings - BRUSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tuft of hair on the mandibles. 4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood. 5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush. (more info) F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta,

Additional info about word: BRUSH

A tuft of hair on the mandibles. 4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood. 5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush. (more info) F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta, brust, bristle, G. borste bristle, bürste brush. See Bristle, n., and cf. 1. An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc. 2. The bushy tail of a fox.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRUSH)

• Skim
• Brush
• glide
• graze
• touch

Related words: (words related to BRUSH)

• BRUSHWOOD
  1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.
• BRUSHITE
  A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
• GLIDE
  A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or
• TOUCHING
  Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.
• TOUCHY
  Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.
• TOUCHBACK
  The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• BRUSHER
  One who, or that which, brushes.
• TOUCHHOLE
  The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
• BRUSH TURKEY
  A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. Note: The brush turkeys live in the "brush," and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap
• BRUSHING
  1. Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine. 2. Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.
• TOUCHINESS
  The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
• GLIDEN
  p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.
• BRUSHY
  Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
• TOUCHSTONE
  Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite. 2. Fig.:
• TOUCH-ME-NOT
  See Impatiens. Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
• GRAZE
  Etym: 1. To feed or supply with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. Swift. 2. To feed on; to eat ; to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. Pope. 3. To tend
• TOUCH
  The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine. Pope.
• TOUCHDOWN
  The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal . Safety touchdown. See under Safety.
• GRAZER
  One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage. The cackling goose, Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want. J. Philips.
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• HAIRBRUSH
  A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.
• SAGEBRUSH
  A low irregular shrub , of the order Compositæ, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.
• UNDERBRUSH
  Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.
• DUSTBRUSH
  A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.
• BRUSH
  A tuft of hair on the mandibles. 4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood. 5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush. (more info) F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta,
• KNEEBRUSH
  A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• CARTOUCH
  An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign. (more info) cartoccio, cornet, cartouch, fr. L. charta paper. See 1st Card, and A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge. A cartridge