bottle-brush

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• Brush

  ·noun The bushy tail of a fox. II. Brush ·noun A tuft of hair on the mandibles. III. Brush ·noun A...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• to brush

  To run away. Let us buy a brush and lope; let us go away or off. To have a brush with a woman; to li...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• brush

  n. at first undergrowth, small trees, asin England; afterwards applied to larger timber growth andf...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• brush

  A skirmish, or fight.--Johnson. Grose. It could not be possible, that, upon so little a brush as Wa...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• brush

  A move; a skirmish. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Bottle

  ·noun A bundle, ·esp. of hay. II. Bottle ·noun Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bottle

  A vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam. 16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Bottle

  The Arabs keep their water, milk and other liquids in leathern bottles. These are made of goatskins....

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Air brush

  ·add. ·- A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Brush turkey

  ·- A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also...

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• Brush wheel

  ·- A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, ·etc., for polishing. II. ...

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• Brush Court

  South out of Upper East Smithfield, the second turning east from St. Katherine's Lane (Horwood, 1799...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• brush-apple

  n. See apple. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• brush-bloodwood

  n. See bloodwood. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• brush-cherry

  n. an Australian tree, Trochocarpa laurina, R. Br., and Eugeniamyrtifolia, Simms. Called also Brush...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• brush-deal

  n. a slender Queensland tree, Cupania anacardioides, A. Richard. See Brush,above. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• brush-kangaroo

  n. another name for the wallaby (q.v.). 1802. G. Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' c. viii...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• brush-myrtle

  i.q. brush-cherry (q.v.) ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• brush-turkey

  n. See turkey. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• brush-turpentine

  n. another name for the tree Syncarpia leptopetala, F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae,called also Myrtle (q....

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• turpentine, brush

  name given to two trees – – Metrosideros leptopetala, F. v. M., also called Myrtle; and Rhodamnia tr...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to brush up

  To prepare oneself; to take courage. When Miss Mary came, I brushed up, and was determined to have ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Bottle green

  ·- A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bottle-nose

  ·noun The <<Puffin>>. II. Bottle-nose ·noun A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, a...

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• Bottle-nosed

  ·adj Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Woulfe bottle

  ·noun A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; — so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bottle Lane

  See Botolph's Lane. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• bottle-headed

  Void of wit. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• phos bottle

  A. bottle of phosphorus: used by housebreakers to light their lanthorns. Ding the phos; throw away t...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• soldier's bottle

  A large one. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bottle-gourd

  n. an Australian plant, Lagenaria vulgaris, Ser., N.O. Cucurbitaceae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bottle-swallow

  n. a popular name for the bird Lagenoplastis ariel, otherwise called the FairyMartin. See Martin. T...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bottle-tree

  n. an Australian tree, variousspecies of Sterculia, i.q. Kurrajong (q.v.). Sonamed from its appearan...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• junk-bottle

  The ordinary black glass porter-bottle. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bottle-bump

  The bittern, so called on our east coast. ...

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• bottle-charts

  Those on which the set of surface currents are exhibited, derived from papers found in bottles which...

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• bottle-nose

  , or bottle-nosed whale A name applied to several of the smaller cetaceans of the northern seas, m...

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• empty bottle

  See marine officer. ...

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• sea-bottle

  The pod or vesicle of some species of sea-wrack or Fucus gigantea of Cape Horn and the Straits of Ma...

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• Bottle Alley, Bottle Yard, Bishopsgate

  See Brittania Place. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Bottle-neck frame

  ·add. ·- An inswept frame. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bawdy-house bottle

  A very small bottle; short measure being among the many means used by the keepers of those houses, t...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bottle-nosed whale

  See bottle-nose ...

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• Cock and Bottle Court

  East out of Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 122). Not name...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• tar-brush, touch of the

  A nautical term applied to those who are slightly darkened by mixed blood. ...

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• tarred with the same brush

  Equivalent to "birds of a feather." ...

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• touch of the tar-brush

  A nautical phrase expressive of those officers who are seamen as well as quarter-deckers. Also said ...

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