Brush
(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 |
Brush
(n.) The bushy tail of a fox. |
Brush
(n.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles. |
Brush
(n.) Branches of trees lopped off |
Brush
(n.) A thicket of shrubs or small trees |
Brush
(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. |
Brush
(n.) The act of brushing |
Brush
(n.) A skirmish |
Brush
(n.) A short contest, or trial, of speed. |
Brush
(n.) To apply a brush to, according to its particular use |
Brush
(n.) To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush. |
Brush
(n.) To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind |
Brush
(v. i.) To move nimbly in haste |
Brush turkey
() A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. |
Brush wheel
() A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference. |
Brush wheel
() A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing. |
Common
(v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one |
Common
(v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together |
Common
(v.) Often met with |
Common
(v.) Not distinguished or exceptional |
Common
(v.) Profane |
Common
(v.) Given to habits of lewdness |
Common
(n.) The people |
Common
(n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public |
Common
(n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons |
Common
(v. i.) To converse together |
Common
(v. i.) To participate. |
Common
(v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground. |
Common
(v. i.) To board together |
Common sense
() See Common sense, under Sense. |
Crop-tailed
(a.) Having the tail cropped. |
Daggle-tailed
(a.) Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth |
Dag-tailed
(a.) Daggle-tailed |
Degu
(n.) A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontidae. |
Draggle-tailed
(a.) Untidy |
Fan-tailed
(a.) Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail |
Fork-tailed
(a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones |
Pin-tailed
(a.) Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest |
Racket-tailed
(a.) Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. |
Rat-tailed
(a.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. |
Red-tailed
(a.) Having a red tail. |
Ring-tailed
(a.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. |
Ruby-tailed
(a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. |
Scissors-tailed
(a.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones. |
Spine-tailed
(a.) Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. |
Stiff-tailed
(a.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. |
Stump-tailed
(a.) Having a short, thick tail. |
Swallow-tailed
(a.) Having a tail like that of a swallow |
Swallow-tailed
(a.) United by dovetailing |
Tailed
(a.) Having a tail |
| brush | contact with something dangerous or undesirable, I had a brush with danger on my way to work, he tried to avoid any brushes with the police |
| brush-off | a curt or disdainful rejection |
| brush brushing | the act of brushing your hair, he gave his hair a quick brush |
| brush brushing | the act of brushing your teeth, the dentist recommended two brushes a day |
brush
clash
encounter
skirmish | a minor short-term fight |
common shiner
silversides Notropis cornutus | the common North American shiner |
common canary
Serinus canaria | native to the Canary Islands and Azores, popular usually yellow cage bird noted for its song |
green-tailed towhee
Chlorura chlorura | towhee of the Rocky Mountains |
common yellowthroat
Maryland yellowthroat
Geothlypis trichas | an American warbler |
common starling
Sturnus vulgaris | gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss, builds nests around dwellings and other structures, naturalized worldwide |
common European jay
Garullus garullus | fawnolored jay with black-and-white crest and blue-and-black wings |
common nutcracker
Nucifraga caryocatactes | Old World nutcracker |
redtail red-tailed hawk
Buteo jamaicensis | dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail |
swallow-tailed kite
swallow-tailed hawk
Elanoides forficatus | graceful North American black-and-white kite |
white-tailed kite
Elanus leucurus | grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions |
ern
erne
grey sea eagle
gray sea eagle
European sea eagle
white-tailed sea eagle
Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
common newt
Triturus vulgaris | small semiaquatic salamander |
tailed frog
bell toad
ribbed toad
tailed toad
Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
common snapping turtle
snapper
Chelydra serpentina | large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water, prone to bite |
common iguana
iguana
Iguana iguana | large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back, used as human food in Central America and South America |
zebra-tailed lizard
gridiron-tailed lizard
Callisaurus draconoides | swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
common kingsnake
Lampropeltis getulus | widespread in United States except northern regions, black or brown with yellow bands |
common garter snake
Thamnophis sirtalis | a garter snake that is widespread in North America |
common water snake
banded water snake
Natrix sipedon
Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
adder
common viper
Vipera berus | small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia |
sharp-tailed grouse
sprigtail
sprig tail
Pedioecetes phasianellus | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America |
brush turkey
Alectura lathami | black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea |
band-tailed pigeon
band-tail pigeon
bandtail
Columba fasciata | wild pigeon of western North America, often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon |
pin-tailed sandgrouse
pin-tailed grouse
Pterocles alchata | sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers |
pintail pin-tailed duck
Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
common scoter
Melanitta nigra | a variety of scoter |
common brant goose
Branta bernicla | the best known variety of brant goose |
common opossum
Didelphis virginiana
Didelphis marsupialis | omnivorous opossum of the eastern United States, noted for feigning death when in danger, esteemed as food in some areas, considered same species as the crab-eating opossum of South America |
wallaby
brush kangaroo | any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos, often brightly colored |
common wallaby
Macropus agiles | a small wallaby having a height ofinches |
nail-tailed wallaby
nail-tailed kangaroo | small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail |
brush-tailed phalanger
Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
brewer's mole
hair-tailed mole
Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
common shrew
Sorex araneus | common American shrew |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
common roundworm
Ascaris lumbricoides | intestinal parasite of humans and pigs |
common limpet
Patella vulgata | marine limpet |
common spoonbill
Platalea leucorodia | pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa |
common murre
Uria aalge | the most frequent variety of murre |
finback
finback whale
fin whale
common rorqual
Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific |
common dolphin
Delphinus delphis | black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water, |
pilot whale
black whale common blackfish
blackfish Globicephala melaena | small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school |
harbor seal
common seal
Phoca vitulina | small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere |
coyote
prairie wolf
brush wolf
Canis latrans | small wolf native to western North America |
common lynx
Lynx lynx | of northern Eurasia |