noun. A low shrub with many branches.

noun. A thick growth of shrubs; a thicket.

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noun. Land covered with dense vegetation or undergrowth.

noun. Land remote from settlement.

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noun. A shaggy mass, as of hair.

noun. A growth of pubic hair.

noun. A fox's tail.

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noun. A clump of ivy hung outside a tavern to indicate the availability of wine inside.

noun. A tavern.

intransitive verb. To grow or branch out like a bush.

intransitive verb. To extend in a bushy growth.

intransitive verb. To decorate, protect, or support with bushes.

adjective. Bush-league; second-rate.

transitive verb. To furnish or line with a bushing.

To furnish with a bush; line (an orifice, as one in which a pivot or axle works) with metal to prevent abrasion or to reduce the diameter.

To grow thick or bushy; serve or show as a bush.

To set bushes about; support with bushes or branched sticks: as, to bush peas.

2. To use a bush-harrow on: as, to bush a piece of wood.

3. To cover (seeds) by using a bush-harrow: as, to bush in seeds.

To dress a stone with a bush-hammer.

noun. In milling, a packing of wooden blocks placed in the eye of the bedstone and forming the upper bearing of the spindle.

noun. A thicket; a clump of shrubs or trees.

noun. A shrub with branches; a thick shrub; technically, a low and much-branched shrub.

noun. A stretch of forest or of shrubby vegetation: a district covered with brushwood, or shrubs, trees, etc.; a wide uncultivated tract of country covered with scrub: as, the bush was here very dense; to take to the bush (to become a bush-ranger): so used especially in the British colonies of Australasia.

noun. A branch of a tree fixed or hung out as a tavern sign. See ale-stake and ale-garland.

noun. Hence The tavern itself.

noun. The tail or brush of a fox.

noun. A lining of harder material let into an orifice to guard against wearing by friction; the perforated box or tube of metal fitted into certain parts of machinery, as the pivot-holes of a clock, the center of a cart-wheel, etc., to receive the wear of pivots, journals, and the like. Also called

noun. A tailors' thimble. Also called bushel.

intransitive verb. To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

transitive verb. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

transitive verb. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

transitive verb. To furnish with a bush, or lining.

noun. 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.

noun. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

noun. A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

noun. A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

noun. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

noun. 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.

noun. The tail, or brush, of a fox.

noun. to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting.

noun. a variety of bean which is low and requires no support (Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1.

noun. a beautiful South African antelope (Tragelaphus sylvaticus); -- so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species.

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noun. the serval. See Serval.

noun. a bird of the genus Pratincola, of the Thrush family.

noun. See Potto.