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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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

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

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

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

2. Small branches of trees cut off. [ 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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

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

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

☞ 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 ]

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 ]

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

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