Bush

1. v. i. To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
2. n. A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
3. n. A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
4. n. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
5. 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.
6. n. The tail, or brush, of a fox.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bushed

1. imp. & p. p. of Bush

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Bushing

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Bush
2. n. The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

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Bushboy

1. n. See Bushman.

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Bushel

1. n. The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.
2. n. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
3. n. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
4. n. A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
5. n. A large indefinite quantity.

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Bushelage

1. n. A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.

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Bushelman

1. n. A tailor’s assistant for repairing garments; — called also busheler.

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Bushet

1. n. A small bush.

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Bushfighter

1. n. One accustomed to bushfighting.

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Bushfighting

1. n. Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.

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