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Brush   /brəʃ/   Listen
Brush

noun
1.
A dense growth of bushes.  Synonyms: brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket.
2.
An implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle.
3.
Momentary contact.  Synonym: light touch.
4.
Conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor.
5.
A bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox).
6.
A minor short-term fight.  Synonyms: clash, encounter, skirmish.
7.
The act of brushing your teeth.  Synonym: brushing.
8.
The act of brushing your hair.  Synonym: brushing.
9.
Contact with something dangerous or undesirable.  "He tried to avoid any brushes with the police"
verb
(past & past part. brushed; pres. part. brushing)
1.
Rub with a brush, or as if with a brush.
2.
Touch lightly and briefly.
3.
Clean with a brush.
4.
Sweep across or over.  Synonym: sweep.  "A gasp swept cross the audience"
5.
Remove with or as if with a brush.  "Brush the dust from the jacket" , "Brush aside the objections"
6.
Cover by brushing.



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"Brush" Quotes from Famous Books



... before the dressing-bureau, took therefrom a bottle of hair lustral, and, pouring the palm of his little hand full of the liquid, commenced rubbing it upon his head. Twice had this operation been performed, and Tom was pulling open a drawer to get the hair-brush, when the odour of the oily compound reached the nostrils of the lad's mother, who was sitting with her back toward him. Turning quickly, she saw ...
— Home Scenes, and Home Influence - A Series of Tales and Sketches • T. S. Arthur
... told the customers of his very last love-affair, he kept his eye on the quart measure, into which the brown molasses was slowly curling. It delighted his admiring listeners to see him suddenly leap over the counter and rush out into the street to have a brush with a passing street-boy; also to see him calmly return to tie the string on a package or to finish ...
— Invisible Links • Selma Lagerlof
... to brush my teeth?" inquired Cervera, with a vixenish light in her evil eyes. "I cannot whistle and brush ...
— With Links of Steel • Nicholas Carter
... directly under the large nails that support the tools, is drawn with a small brush dipped in black paint or ink, a representation in outline of the tool or instrument belonging to that ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... training teachers from many nations. In 1877 sloyd work was added to the Folk School instruction of Sweden. At first the old native sloyd occupations were followed, such as carpentering, turning, wood- carving, brush-making, book-binding, and work in copper and iron, but later the industrial element gave way to a well-organized course in educational tool work for boys from twelve to fifteen years of age, ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY


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