rush-broom

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• Rush

  ·noun A perfect recitation. II. Rush ·noun The merest trifle; a straw. III. Rush ·noun The act of ...

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• Rush

  The papyrus (Job 8:11). (See Bulrush.) The expression "branch and rush" in Isa. 9:14; 19:15 means "u...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• rush

  I. v. 1) Of cattle: to charge a man.Contraction for to rush-at. 1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sk...

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

• Broom

  ·vt ·see <<Bream>>. II. Broom ·noun An implement for sweeping floors, ·etc., commonly made of the p...

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• broom

  n. name applied to the plant Calycothrix tetragona, Lab., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...

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

• broom

  A besom at the mast-head signifies that the ship is to be sold: derived probably from the old practi...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Club-rush

  ·noun A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. ·see <<Bulr...

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• Rush-bearing

  ·noun A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes t...

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• flowering rush

  n. name given to the rush or reed, Xyris operculata, Lab., N.O. Xyrideae. ...

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

• Broom corn

  ·- A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ...

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• Broom rape

  ·- A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, ha...

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• Butcher's broom

  ·- A genus of plants (Ruscus); ·esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches...

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• Green-broom

  ·noun A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; — called also greenweed. ...

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• broom, native

  n. an Australian timber, Viminaria denudala, Smith, N.O. Leguminosae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful ...

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

• broom, purple

  n. a Tasmanian name for Comesperma retusum, Lab., N.O. Polygaleae. ...

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• native broom

  n. See broom. ...

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• purple broom

  n. See broom. ...

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

• swamp-broom

  n. a rush-broom, Viminariadenudata, Sm., N.O. Leguminosae.See swamp-oak. ...

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

• tea-broom

  n. a New Zealand name for the Tea-tree (q.v.). 1872. A. Domett, `Ranolf,' [Notes] p. 505: «Manuka...

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

• broom-corn

  (Sorghum saccharatum.) A species of corn which grows from six to eight feet high, from the tufts of ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• corn-broom

  Brooms made from the tops of a species of corn, called broom-corn. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.