brush-cherry

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• Cherry

  ·noun A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. II. Cherry ·noun The fruit of the cherry tree...

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• cherry, native

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• cherry

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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...

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• 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...

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• brush

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

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• brush

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

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• brush

  A move; a skirmish. ...

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• Bird cherry

  ·- A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries. ...

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• Bob-cherry

  ·noun A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught...

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• Cherry, Andrew

  (1762-1812) Dramatist, s. of a bookseller at Limerick, was a successful actor, and managed theatres...

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• cherry-picker

  n. bird-name. See quotation. 1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. p. 70: « Melithreptus...

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• native cherry

  n. See cherry. ...

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• winter cherry

  n. See balloon vine. ...

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• choke-cherry

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• Air brush

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

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• 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...

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• bottle-brush

  n. name given to various speciesof Callistemon and Melaleuca, N.O. Myrtaceae; the Purple Bottle-bru...

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• brush-apple

  n. See apple. ...

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• brush-bloodwood

  n. See bloodwood. ...

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• brush-deal

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• brush-kangaroo

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• brush-myrtle

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

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• brush-turkey

  n. See turkey. ...

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• brush-turpentine

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

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• turpentine, brush

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

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• to brush up

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

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• cherry-coloured cat

  A black cat, there being black cherries as well as red. ...

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• cherry, herbert river

  n. a Queensland tree, Antidesma dallachyanum, Baill., N.O. Euphorbiaceae.The fruit is equal to a la...

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• 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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