1. a low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground.
2. a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant.
3. something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of hair.
4. a small, wooded lot, especially a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.
5. the tail of a fox; brush.
6. a stretch of uncultivated land covered with mixed plant growth, bushy vegetation, trees, etc.
7. a large uncleared area thickly covered with mixed plant growth, trees, etc., as a jungle.
8. a large, sparsely populated area most of which is uncleared, as areas of Australia and Alaska.
9. a tree branch hung as a sign before a tavern or vintner's shop.
10. any tavern sign.
11. pubic hair.
12. a wineshop.

13. to be or become bushy; branch or spread as or like a bush.

14. to cover, protect, support, or mark with a bush or bushes.

15. bush-league.

16. to avoid coming to the point; delay in approaching a subject directly: Stop beating around the bush and tell me what you want.
17. to scout or search for persons or things far and wide: I've been beating the bushes for a skilled, honest, inexpensive renovator.
18. go bush, Australian.
• to flee or escape into the bush.
• to become wild.

1. a lining of metal or the like set into an orifice to guard against wearing by friction, erosion, etc.
2. bushing (def. 2).

3. to furnish with a bush; line with metal.

1. U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush and mother of George W. Bush).
2. U.S. politician: vice president 1981–89; 41st president of the United States 1989–93.
3. U.S. businessman and politician: governor of Texas 1994–2001; 43rd president of the United States 2001–09 (son of George H. W. Bush).
4. U.S. First Lady 2001–09 (wife of George W. Bush).
5. U.S. electrical engineer: education and research administrator.

1. bushel; bushels.

1. a dense woody plant, smaller than a tree, with many branches arising from the lower part of the stem; shrub
2. a dense cluster of such shrubs; thicket
3. something resembling a bush, esp in density
• an uncultivated or sparsely settled area, esp in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada: usually covered with trees or shrubs, varying from open shrubby country to dense rainforest
• (as modifier)
5. an area of land on a farm on which timber is grown and cut
6. a forested area; woodland
7. the countryside, as opposed to the city
8. a fox's tail; brush
9. obsolete
• a bunch of ivy hung as a vintner's sign in front of a tavern
• any tavern sign
10. to avoid the point at issue; prevaricate

11. rough-and-ready
12. ignorant or stupid, esp as considered typical of unwesternized rustic life
13. unprofessional, unpolished, or second-rate
14. go bush informal, Australian and NZ
• to abandon city amenities and live rough
• to run wild

15. to grow thick and bushy
16. to cover, decorate, support, etc, with bushes
17. to camp out in the bush

1. a thin metal sleeve or tubular lining serving as a bearing or guide

2. to fit a bush to (a casing, bearing, etc)

1. George . born 1924, US Republican politician; vice president of the US (1981–89): 41st president of the US (1989–93)
2. his son, George W (alker). born 1946, US Republican politician; 43rd president of the US (2001–09)

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