BUSH
\bˈʊʃ], \bˈʊʃ], \b_ˈʊ_ʃ]\
Definitions of BUSH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a large wilderness area
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United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)
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Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)
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a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches
By Princeton University
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a large wilderness area
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Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (1924-)
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United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
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A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
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A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
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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.
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To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
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To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
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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.
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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.
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A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
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To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
By Oddity Software
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A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
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A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
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A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
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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.
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To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
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To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
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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.
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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.
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A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
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To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A shrub thick with branches: anything of bushy tuft-like shape: any wild uncultivated country, esp. at the Cape or in Australia. In the United States, IN THE BUSH means in a new country before it has been cleared up. A SUGAR BUSH, a cluster of sugar maple trees.
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The metal box or lining of any cylinder in which an axle works.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A thick shrub; the bough of a tree; a cluster of shrubs; a branch of ivy hung out as a tavern sign; a wild uncultivated tract of land covered with brushwood, &c.; anything like a bush; the tail of a fox.
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A circle of metal let into round holes or orifices, or into the sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, to prevent their wearing; a thimble.
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To prop up with bushes. To beat about the bush, not to set straightforwardly to work.
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To furnish a block with a brush.
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To grow thick or bushy.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A shrub or small tree; a collection of shrubs of various kinds; a tract of uncultivated country covered with trees and shrubs of natural growth; a fox's tail.
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A round open piece of metal put into sheaves of blocks to prevent them wearing; a circlet of metal put into anything to lessen friction.
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To line any hole or orifice with metal.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Dutch] A thicket, or a place abounding in trees or shrubs;—a shrub; particularly a thick shrub;—a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus) hung out at vintners' doors; a tavern sign;—a lining of metal, let into an orifice;—the backwoods of Australia and Cape Colony.
