Word Meanings - BRUSHINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.

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• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• QUALITY
  1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
• BRUSHWOOD
  1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• 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,
• BRUSHITE
  A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• SHAGGINESS
  The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness.
• BRUSHER
  One who, or that which, brushes.
• 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
• CONDITION
  A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
• CONDITIONLY
  Conditionally.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• BRUSHING
  1. Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine. 2. Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.
• BRUSHY
  Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• CONDITIONALLY
  In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
• BRUSHINESS
  The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• 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.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONDITIONAL
  Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
• UNCONDITIONED
  Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or
• KNEEBRUSH
  A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• EQUALITY
  Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under