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adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + flush, n. ] In a flushed or blushing state. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + flush, a. ] On a level. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bank is . . . aflush with the sea. Swinburne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + gush. ] In a gushing state. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. 1. to paint with an airbrush. The old car looks like new now that we airbrushed it [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to alter or remove by use of an airbrush. “After the photographer airbrushed out the wrinkles on her face she looked twenty years younger.” [ PJC ]

. A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter, such as paint, in a spray by compressed air. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. embûche, fr. the verb. See Ambush, v. t. ] 1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege
Or ambush from the deep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bold in close ambush, base in open field. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The ambush arose quickly out of their place. Josh. viii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

To lay an ambush, to post a force in ambush. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ambushed p. pr. & vb. n. Ambushing. ] [ OE. enbussen, enbushen, OF. embushier, embuissier, F. embûcher, embusquer, fr. LL. imboscare; in + LL. boscus, buscus, a wood; akin to G. bush, E. bush. See Ambuscade, Bush. ] 1. To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

By ambushed men behind their temple laid,
We have the king of Mexico betrayed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To attack by ambush; to waylay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor saw the snake that ambushed for his prey. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One lying in ambush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. embuschement. See Ambush, v. t. ] An ambush. [ Obs. ] 2 Chron. xiii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) (a) One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants. (b) See Ant bird, under Ant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau. [ Jocular ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blushed p. pr. & vb. n. Blushing. ] [ OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, ābl&ymacr_;sian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to blaze, blush. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the nuptial bower
I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous worth,
That blushed at its own praise. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set,
But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. T. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To blush and beautify the cheek again. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To express or make known by blushing. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll blush you thanks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rosy blush of love. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint. [ 1913 Webster ]

Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills. Lyttleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

At first blush, or
At the first blush, at the first appearance or view. “At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France.” Hakluyt. This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc., than of material things. “All purely identical propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear, ” etc. Locke. --
To put to the blush, to cause to blush with shame; to put to shame. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. rose-colored.
Syn. -- blushful, rosy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One that blushes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A modest girl. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of blushes. [ 1913 Webster ]

While from his ardent look the turning Spring
Averts her blushful face. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy. [ R. ] “A blushy color.” Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Bot.) The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. [ 1913 Webster ]

He jumped into a bramble bush
And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. fragrant rounded shrub of SW US and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine.
Syn. -- brittle bush, incienso, Encelia farinosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Zool.) A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brusche, OF. broche, broce, brosse, brushwood, F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta, brust, bristle, G. borste bristle, bürste brush. See Bristle, n., and cf. Browse. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The bushy tail of a fox. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. land covered with brush{ 5 }; in Australia, a dense growth of vegetation in good soil, including shrubs and trees, mostly small. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

7. (Elec.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ As leaves ] have with one winter's brush
Fell from their boughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy; a brush with the law. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong,
And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A short contest, or trial, of speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us enjoy a brush across the country. Cornhill Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

Electrical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brushed p. pr. & vb. n. Brushing. ] [ OE. bruschen; cf. F. brosser. See Brush, n. ] 1. To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush. “A' brushes his hat o' mornings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some spread their sailes, some with strong oars sweep
The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off. [ 1913 Webster ]

As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed
With raven's feather from unwholesome fen. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And from the boughts brush off the evil dew. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To brush aside, to remove from one's way, as with a brush. --
To brush away, to remove, as with a brush or brushing motion. --
To brush up, to paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by. [ 1913 Webster ]

Snatching his hat, he brushed off like the wind. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. p. p. of brush. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having a soft nap produced by brushing; as, a dress of brushed cotton. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, brushes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From George J. Brush, an American mineralogist. ] (Min.) A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The brush turkeys live in the “brush, ” and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying vegetable matter, which generates heat sufficient to hatch the numerous eggs (sometimes half a bushel) deposited in it by the females of the flock. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Small branches of trees cut off. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bulrysche, bolroysche; of uncertain origin, perh. fr. bole stem + rush. ] (Bot.) A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name bulrush is applied in England especially to the cat-tail (Typha latifolia and Typha angustifolia) and to the lake club-rush (Scirpus lacustris); in America, to the Juncus effusus, and also to species of Scirpus or club-rush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bosch, busch, buysch, bosk, busk; akin to D. bosch, OHG. busc, G. busch, Icel. būskr, būski, Dan. busk, Sw. buske, and also to LL. boscus, buscus, Pr. bosc, It. bosco, Sp. & Pg. bosque, F. bois, OF. bos. Whether the LL. or G. form is the original is uncertain; if the LL., it is perh. from the same source as E. box a case. Cf. Ambush, Boscage, Bouquet, Box a case. ] 1. A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This was the original sense of the word, as in the Dutch bosch, a wood, and was so used by Chaucer. In this sense it is extensively used in the British colonies, especially at the Cape of Good Hope, and also in Australia and Canada; as, to live or settle in the bush. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers. Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox. [ 1913 Webster ]

To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. --
Bush bean (Bot.), a variety of bean which is low and requires no support (Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1. --
Bush buck, or
Bush goat (Zool.), a beautiful South African antelope (Tragelaphus sylvaticus); -- so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species. --
Bush cat (Zool.), the serval. See Serval. --
Bush chat (Zool.), a bird of the genus Pratincola, of the Thrush family. --
Bush dog. (Zool.) See Potto. --
Bush hammer. See Bushhammer in the Vocabulary. --
Bush harrow (Agric.) See under Harrow. --
Bush hog (Zool.), a South African wild hog (Potamochœrus Africanus); -- called also bush pig, and water hog. --
Bush master (Zool.), a venomous snake (Lachesis mutus) of Guinea; -- called also surucucu. --
Bush pea (Bot.), a variety of pea that needs to be bushed. --
Bush shrike (Zool.), a bird of the genus Thamnophilus, and allied genera; -- called also batarg. Many species inhabit tropical America. --
Bush tit (Zool.), a small bird of the genus Psaltriparus, allied to the titmouse. Psaltriparus minimus inhabits California. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. “The bushing alders.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bushed (b&usdot_;sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Bushing. ] 1. To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. bus a box, akin to E. box; or F. boucher to plug. ] 1. (Mech.) 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. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the larger machines, such a piece is called a box, particularly in the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gun.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any of several agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemurlike primates of the genus Galago with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears; -- called also galago. [ WordNet 1.5 ]