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

(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. a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles. [ 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. a brush used for cleaning clothing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crush hat, a hat which collapses, and can be carried under the arm, and when expanded is held in shape by springs; hence, any hat not injured by compressing. --
Crush room, a large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crushed p. pr. & vb. n. Crushing. ] [ OE. cruschen, crousshen, Of. cruisir, croissir, fr. LL. cruscire, prob. of Ger. origin, from a derivative of the word seen in Goth. kruistan to gnash; akin to Sw. krysta to squeeze, Dan. kryste, Icel. kreysta. ] 1. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut. Lev. xxii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. Num. xxii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

To crush the pillars which the pile sustain. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To oppress or burden grievously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway. Deut. xxviii. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To overcome completely; to subdue totally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. to subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch. [ PJC ]

To crush a cup, to drink. [ Obs. ] --
To crush out. (a) To force out or separate by pressure, as juice from grapes. (b) To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; -- of fabrics; as, crushed velvet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. utterly defeated.
Syn. -- subdued. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. brought low in condition or status by confusion, humiliation, or severe disappointment.
Syn. -- broken, humbled, humiliated, low. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

4. broken or pounded into small fragments; used of e.g. ore or stone. paved with crushed bluestone
Syn. -- ground. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

Crusher gauge, an instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That crushes; overwhelming. “The blow must be quick and crushing.” Macualay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. froisser to bruise. Cf. Froise. ] To batter; to break in pieces. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I like thine armor well;
I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Easily broken; brittle; crisp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Noise; clatter; crash. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OE. frosch, frosk, a frog (the animal), G. frosch frog (the animal), also carney or lampass of horses. See Frog, n., 2. ] 1. (Far.) The frog of a horse's foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To rush in. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A thick mass or collection of hairs on the legs of bees, by aid of which they carry the collected pollen to the hive or nest; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brush for cleaning the nails. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rushing onward. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To rush out; to issue, or run out, forcibly. Garth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brush used to apply paint. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. rusche, rische, resche, AS. risce, akin to LG. rusk, risch, D. & G. rusch; all probably fr. L. ruscum butcher's broom; akin to Goth. raus reed, G. rohr. ] 1. (Bot.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some species are used in bottoming chairs and plaiting mats, and the pith is used in some places for wicks to lamps and rushlights. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The merest trifle; a straw. [ 1913 Webster ]

John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bog rush. See under Bog. --
Club rush, any rush of the genus Scirpus. --
Flowering rush. See under Flowering. --
Nut rush (a) Any plant of the genus Scleria, rushlike plants with hard nutlike fruits. (b) A name for several species of Cyperus having tuberous roots. --
Rush broom, an Australian leguminous plant (Viminaria denudata), having long, slender branches. Also, the Spanish broom. See under Spanish. --
Rush candle, See under Candle. --
Rush grass, any grass of the genus Vilfa, grasses with wiry stems and one-flowered spikelets. --
Rush toad (Zool.), the natterjack. --
Scouring rush. (Bot.) Same as Dutch rush, under Dutch. --
Spike rush, any rushlike plant of the genus Eleocharis, in which the flowers grow in dense spikes. --
Sweet rush, a sweet-scented grass of Arabia, etc. (Andropogon schoenanthus), used in Oriental medical practice. --
Wood rush, any plant of the genus Luzula, which differs in some technical characters from Juncus. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Rushed p. pr. & vb. n. Rushing. ] [ OE. ruschen; cf. AS. hryscan to make a noise, D. ruischen to rustle, G. rauschen, MHG. rūschen to rush, to rustle, LG. rusken, OSw. ruska, Icel. & Sw. ruska to shake, Dan. ruske to shake, and E. rouse. ] 1. To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like to an entered tide, they all rush by. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . never think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error. [ College Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A perfect recitation. [ College Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Football) (a) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush. (b) The act of running with the ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bunt rush (Football), a combined rush by main strength. --
Rush line (Football), the line composed of rushers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. [ Eng. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That flock of stout, bragging rushbucklers. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding or covered with rushes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who strewed rushes on the floor at dances. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rushes. Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]