brush-turkey

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• Brush turkey

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

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• Turkey

  ·noun An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia. II. Turkey ·noun Any large Americ...

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• turkey

  n. This common English bird-name isapplied in Australia to three birds, viz. – – 1) To the bird Eu...

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

• 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...

  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...

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• brush

  A move; a skirmish. ...

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• Turkey-trot

  ·add. ·noun An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic ri...

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• Water turkey

  ·- The American snakebird. ·see <<Snakebird>>. ...

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• turkey merchant

  A poulterer. ...

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• native turkey

  n. Same as Wild Turkey.A vernacular name given to Eupodotis australis, Gray,which is not a turkey a...

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

• scrub-turkey

  n. an Australian bird, Leipoaocellata, Gould; aboriginal name, the Lowan (q.v.).See Turkey. ...

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• wild turkey

  n. See turkey. ...

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• turkey-grain

  A name for maize. ...

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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 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.

• bottle-brush

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

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

• brush-apple

  n. See apple. ...

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• brush-bloodwood

  n. See bloodwood. ...

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• 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. ...

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• 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.) ...

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• 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 ...

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• poor as job's turkey

  A common simile. The professor is as poor as Job's turkey, if it wasn't for that powerful salary th...

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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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