- (v.t.) To furnish with a bush or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
- (n.) A shrub; especially, a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The tail or brush, of a fox.
- (v.i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
- (n.) 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.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
- (n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (n.) A shrub cut off or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
- (n.) A thicket or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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