Brush vs. Bush

An implement typically consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, grooming, or applying a liquid.

A low shrub with many branches.

The act of using this implement.

A thick growth of shrubs; a thicket.

A sweeping stroke of the hand, as in removing something.

Land covered with dense vegetation or undergrowth.

A light touch in passing; a graze.

Land remote from settlement

An instance of contact with something undesirable or dangerous

A shaggy mass, as of hair.

A bushy tail

Vulgar Slang A growth of pubic hair.

A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.

A fox's tail.

A snub; a brushoff.

(Archaic) A clump of ivy hung outside a tavern to indicate the availability of wine inside.

Dense vegetation consisting of shrubs or small trees.

(Obsolete) A tavern.

Land covered by such a growth.

To grow or branch out like a bush.

Cut or broken branches.

To extend in a bushy growth.

To clean, polish, or groom with a brush

To decorate, protect, or support with bushes.

To apply with a brush

To furnish or line with a bushing.

To remove with a brush or with sweeping strokes

(Slang) Bush-league; second-rate

To touch lightly in passing; graze against.

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

To use a brush.

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

To make sweeping strokes with the hand.

(historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

To touch something lightly in moving past.

A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.

An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.

(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

The act of brushing something.

(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.

(often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.

A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.

(Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.

(uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.

(New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.

A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.

(Canadian) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.

The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.

(Canadian) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.

(zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"

(archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed.

A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.

(music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.

A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.

(computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

(computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.

(intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

(video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.

To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.

To become bushy (often used with up).

(transitive) To clean with a brush.

(transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.

(transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.

(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.

(transitive) To apply with a brush.

(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

(transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

(ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.

A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

(intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

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.

A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

The bushy tail of a fox.

The tail, or brush, of a fox.

A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

land covered with brush{5}; in Australia, a dense growth of vegetation in good soil, including shrubs and trees, mostly small.

To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.

To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy; a brush with the law.

a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches

A short contest, or trial, of speed.

a large wilderness area

To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.

dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.

43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)

To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; - commonly with off.

United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)

To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)

a dense growth of bushes

hair growing in the pubic area

an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

provide with a bushing

momentary contact

not of the highest quality or sophistication

conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

a minor short-term fight

the act of brushing your teeth;

the act of brushing your hair;

contact with something dangerous or undesirable;

rub with a brush, or as if with a brush;

touch lightly and briefly;

clean with a brush;

sweep across or over;

remove with or as if with a brush;

cover by brushing;