Brush

1. n. A short contest, or trial, of speed.
2. n. An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
3. n. The bushy tail of a fox.
4. n. A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
5. n. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
6. n. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
7. n. A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.
8. n. The act of brushing; as, to give one’s clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.
9. n. A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.
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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.