Bush: Definition and part of speech

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.
  7. 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.

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