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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

... the body of his friend aside, covered it with his leather blanket coat, piled brush over it, ...

— Our Pilots in the Air • Captain William B. Perry

... sipping a little chartreuse from the same traveling cup; she, with the black hair and white skin, and gowned "en ballon" in a costume by Paillard; he in his peajacket buttoned close under his heavy beard. They seem to brush through and against the clouds! A gentle breath from heaven makes the basket decline a little and the ropes creak against the hardwood clinch blocks. It grows colder, and he wraps her closer in ...

— The Real Latin Quarter • F. Berkeley Smith

... straggly places where there are only one or two in a ragged streak, and then it runs along the edge in a fringy rim, and then it stretches out in a marshy place that is going to have some other wild things, arrowheads, and orchids, and maybe a bunch of paint brush on a high, dry spot near by. I wish ...

— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... to cover it up with pretty words, wouldn't you? Well, we've had enough of that. I feel as though my face were covered with spider webs. I want to brush them off and get ...

— King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays • Floyd Dell

... Are we not fresh and blooming? Wait, a bit. The artist takes a mean little brush and draws three fine lines, diverging outwards from the eye over the temple. Five years.—The artist draws one tolerably distinct and two faint lines, perpendicularly between the eyebrows. Ten years.—The artist breaks up the contours round the mouth, so that they look a little as a hat does that ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

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