BPage 289
- English Word Brunt Definition The force of a blow; shock; collision.
- English Word Brush Definition 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.
- English Word Brush Definition The bushy tail of a fox.
- English Word Brush Definition A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- English Word Brush Definition Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
- English Word Brush Definition A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
- English Word Brush Definition 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.
- English Word Brush Definition 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.
- English Word Brush Definition A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.
- English Word Brush Definition A short contest, or trial, of speed.
- English Word Brush Definition To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.
- English Word Brush Definition To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.
- English Word Brush Definition To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.
- English Word Brush Definition To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.
- English Word Brush turkey Definition A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.
- English Word Brush wheel Definition A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.
- English Word Brush wheel Definition A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.
- English Word Brushed Definition of Brush
- English Word Brusher Definition One who, or that which, brushes.
- English Word Brushiness Definition The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess.
- English Word Brushing Definition of Brush
- English Word Brushing Definition Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.
- English Word Brushing Definition Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.
- English Word Brushite Definition A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
- English Word Brushwood Definition Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
- English Word Brushwood Definition Small branches of trees cut off.
- English Word Brushy Definition Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
- English Word Brusk Definition Same as Brusque.
- English Word Brusque Definition Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.
- English Word Brusqueness Definition Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.