1. an implement consisting of bristles, hair, or the like, set in or attached to a handle, used for painting, cleaning, polishing, grooming, etc.
2. one of a pair of devices consisting of long, thin handles with wire bristles attached, used in jazz or dance bands for keeping a soft, rhythmic beat on the trap drums or the cymbals.
3. the bushy tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
4. Electricity.
• a conductor, often made of carbon or copper or a combination of the two, serving to maintain electric contact between stationary and moving parts of a machine, generator, or other apparatus.
• brush discharge.
5. a feathery or hairy tuft or tassel, as on the tip of a kernel of grain or on a man's hat.
6. an act or instance of brushing; application of a brush.
7. a light, stroking touch.
8. a brief conflict or fight; skirmish: He has already had one brush with the law.
9. a close approach, especially to something undesirable or harmful: a brush with disaster.

10. to sweep, paint, clean, polish, etc., with a brush.
11. to touch lightly in passing; pass lightly over: His lips brushed her ear.
12. to remove by brushing or by lightly passing over: His hand brushed a speck of lint from his coat.

13. to move or skim with a slight contact.

14. to disregard; ignore: Our complaints were simply brushed aside.
15. to rebuff; send away: She had never been brushed off so rudely before.
16. to revive, review, or resume (studies, a skill, etc.): She's thinking of brushing up on her tennis.

17. to be rejected or rebuffed: She greeted Jim effusively, but I got the brush.
18. to ignore, rebuff, etc.: If you're still angry with him, give him the brush.

1. a dense growth of bushes, shrubs, etc.; scrub; thicket.
2. a pile or covering of lopped or broken branches; brushwood.
3. bushes and low trees growing in thick profusion, especially close to the ground.
4. land or an area covered with thickly growing bushes and low trees.
5. backwoods; a sparsely settled wooded region.

1. U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

1. a device made of bristles, hairs, wires, etc, set into a firm back or handle: used to apply paint, clean or polish surfaces, groom the hair, etc
2. the act or an instance of brushing
3. a light stroke made in passing; graze
4. a brief encounter or contact, esp an unfriendly one; skirmish
5. the bushy tail of a fox, often kept as a trophy after a hunt, or of certain breeds of dog
6. an electric conductor, esp one made of carbon, that conveys current between stationary and rotating parts of a generator, motor, etc
7. a dark brush-shaped region observed when a biaxial crystal is viewed through a microscope, caused by interference between beams of polarized light

8. to clean, polish, scrub, paint, etc, with a brush
9. to apply or remove with a brush or brushing movement
10. to touch lightly and briefly
11. to move so as to graze or touch something lightly

1. a thick growth of shrubs and small trees; scrub
2. land covered with scrub
3. broken or cut branches or twigs; brushwood
4. wooded sparsely populated country; backwoods

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