Bush

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The tail, or brush, of a fox.

II. Bush ·vi To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

III. Bush ·vt To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

IV. Bush ·vt To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

V. Bush ·noun A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

VI. Bush ·noun A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

VII. Bush ·noun A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

VIII. Bush ·noun A shrub; ·esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

IX. Bush ·vt To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

X. Bush ·noun A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

XI. Bush ·noun A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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