Bush
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Definition
(noun.) a large wilderness area.
(noun.) vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924).
(noun.) 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).
(noun.) 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946).
(verb.) provide with a bushing.
Editor: Moll--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
(n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
(n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
(v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
(v. t.) To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
(v. t.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
(v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
Editor: Rena
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Shrub.
Checker: Presley
Definition
n. a shrub thick with branches: anything of bushy tuft-like shape: any wild uncultivated country esp. at the Cape or in Australia: a bunch of ivy hung up as a tavern sign a tavern itself—'Good wine needs no bush.'—v.i. to grow thick or bushy.—v.t. to set bushes about support with bushes: to cover seeds by means of the bush-harrow.—n. Bush′-cat the serval.—adj. Bushed lost in the bush.—ns. Bush′-harr′ow a light kind of harrow used for covering grass-seeds formed of a barred frame interwoven with bushes or branches; Bush′iness; Bush′man a settler in the uncleared land of America or the Colonies a woodsman: one of a native race in South Africa (Dut. boschjesman); Bush′-rang′er in Australia a lawless fellow often an escaped criminal who takes to the bush and lives by robbery; Bush′-shrike a tropical American ant-thrush; Bush′tit a small long-tailed titmouse of West America building a large hanging-nest.—v.i. Bush′-whack to range through the bush: to fight in guerilla warfare.—ns. Bush′-whack′er a guerilla fighter: a country lout: a short heavy scythe for cutting bushes; Bush′-whack′ing the habits or practice of bush-whackers: the process of forcing a way for a boat by pulling at the bushes overhanging a stream.—adj. Bush′y full of bushes: thick and spreading.—Beat about the bush to go round about anything to evade coming to the point.
n. the metal box or lining of any cylinder in which an axle works.—v.t. to furnish with a bush.—n. Bush′-met′al hard brass gun-metal a composition of copper and tin used for journals bearings &c.
Checked by Cindy
Examples
- On each side stood a sable bush-holly or yew. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You have been watching us from behind that bush? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The lower levels of the Mesozoic land were no doubt covered by great fern brakes and shrubby bush and a kind of jungle growth of trees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had taken scarce a dozen steps toward the jungle when a great form rose up before him from the shadows of a low bush. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In that case the overcoat was not blown against the furze-bush, but placed there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- To her there were not, as to Eustacia, demons in the air, and malice in every bush and bough. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The whole party arrived in safety at the Bush before Mr. Pickwick had recovered his breath. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Miss Eyre, you are not so unsophisticated as Adele: she demands a 'cadeau,' clamorously, the moment she sees me: you beat about the bush. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- See ye how dexterously they avail themselves of every cover which a tree or bush affords, and shun exposing themselves to the shot of our cross-bows? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Wildeve screened himself under a bush and waited. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Asking the operator the best direction, he pointed west, and noticing a rabbit in a clear space in the sage bushes, I said, 'There is one now. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As he spoke, a woman's shrill scream--a scream which vibrated with a frenzy of horror--burst from the thick, green clump of bushes in front of us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Ages ago trees and bushes grew thick and fast, and the ground was always covered with a deep layer of decaying vegetable matter. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- So far I had seen no one and I sat down by some bushes along the bank of the ditch and took off my shoes and emptied them of water. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- And laying down her work, she rose slowly, and slowly passed over the lawn, round the bushes, out of sight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To see him stickin' in de mud,--chasin' and tarin' through de bushes, dogs a holdin' on to him! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The rain came down, thick and fast, and pattered noisily among the leafless bushes. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There is the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now Hermione came round the bushes with Gerald Crich. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was plough-land and pasture, and copses of bare trees, copses of bushes, and homesteads naked and work-bare. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Johanna