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Bush   /bʊʃ/   Listen
noun
Bush  n.  
1.
A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest. Note: 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.
2.
A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs. "To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers."
3.
A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
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. "If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue."
5.
(Hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
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 (Potamochoerus 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.


Bush  n.  
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. Note: In the larger machines, such a piece is called a box, particularly in the United States.
2.
(Gun.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.


verb
Bush  v. t.  (past & past part. bushed; pres. part. bushing)  
1.
To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
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.


Bush  v. t.  To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.


Bush  v. i.  To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. "The bushing alders."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... were glimpses, glimmering notions of the patriarchal wanderings, with palm-trees hovering in the horizon, and processions of camels at the distance of three thousand years; there was Moses with the Burning Bush, the number of the Twelve Tribes, types, shadows, glosses on the law and the prophets; there were discussions (dull enough) on the age of Methuselah, a mighty speculation! there were outlines, rude guesses at the shape of Noah's Ark and at the riches of Solomon's Temple; questions as ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various
... I see my sonne now come on shoare: Venus, how art thou compast with content, The while thine eyes attract their sought for ioyes: Great Iupiter, still honourd maist thou be, For this so friendly ayde in time of neede. Here in this bush disguised will I stand, Whiles my AEneas spends himselfe in plaints, And heauen and earth with his ...
— The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage • Christopher Marlowe
... roulade began again, prolonged itself with renewed effort, rose to its height, and ended. From a bush in the thicket farther up the road a liquid answer came. And Mount Dunstan's laugh at the sound of it was echoed by another which came apparently from the bank rising from the road on the other side of the hedge, and accompanying the laugh was a ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... And here is the dearest little bud I ever saw. I took it from the sweet-briar bush in the lane. Put that, ...
— Wreaths of Friendship - A Gift for the Young • T. S. Arthur and F. C. Woodworth
... sparkling in the noon-day air. Unlike the straight perpendicular .. twin-jets of the Right Whale, which, dividing at top, falls over in two branches, like the cleft drooping boughs of a willow, the single forward-slanting spout of the Sperm Whale presents a thick curled bush of white mist, continually rising and falling away to leeward. Seen from the Pequod's deck, then, as she would rise on a high hill of the sea, this host of vapory spouts, individually curling up into the air, and beheld through a blending atmosphere of ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville


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