Word Meanings - BRUSHWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.

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• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• BRUSHWOOD
  1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.
• 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.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• BRUSHER
  One who, or that which, brushes.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• 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.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• BRUSHY
  Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
• THICKET
  A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• BRUSHINESS
  The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.
• BRUSH WHEEL
  1. A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference. 2. A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.
• COPPICE
  A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke. (more info) fr. cop, coup, colp, a blow, F. coup,
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• 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.
• KNEEBRUSH
  A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• AIR BRUSH
  A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air.