| 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 |
| finch | any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds |
pine siskin
pine finch
Spinus pinus | small finch of North American coniferous forests |
house finch
linnet Carpodacus mexicanus | small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico |
purple finch
Carpodacus purpureus | North American finch having a raspberryed head and breast and rump |
vesper sparrow
grass finch Pooecetes gramineus | common North American finch noted for its evening song |
indigo bunting
indigo finch
indigo bird
Passerina cyanea | small deep blue North American bunting |
weaver
weaverbird
weaver finch | finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests |
Java sparrow
Java finch
ricebird Padda oryzivora | small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields |
| grassfinch grass finch | usually brightlyolored Australian weaverbirds, often kept as cage birds |
zebra finch
Poephila castanotis | small Australian weaverbird with markings like a zebra's |
brush turkey
Alectura lathami | black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea |
wallaby
brush kangaroo | any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos, often brightly colored |
brush-tailed phalanger
Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
coyote
prairie wolf
brush wolf
Canis latrans | small wolf native to western North America |
| brush | a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) |
nymphalid
nymphalid butterfly
brush-footed butterfly
four-footed butterfly | medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and mucheduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast |
brush-tailed porcupine
brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
| Santa Gertrudis | Brahman and shorthorn crossbreed of red cattle, hardy in hot regions |
| bristle brush | a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant |
| brush | an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle |
| brush | conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor |
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sofia
Santa Sophia
Santa Sofia | a th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul, built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in , and made into a museum in the middle of the th century |
rigger
rigger brush | a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists |
sable sable brush
sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
| Santa Fe Trail | a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico, an important route for settlers moving west in the th century |
scrub brush
scrubbing brush
scrubber | a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning |
| shaving brush | a brush used to apply lather prior to shaving |
| brush cut | a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush |
| brush fire | an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes |
brush
light touch | momentary contact |
brush
brushwood
coppice
copse
thicket | a dense growth of bushes |
| Santa Ana | a city in western El Salvador |
| Santa Maria del Tule | a town in southeastern Mexico near Oaxaca, site of Ahuehuete, a giant Montezuma cypress |
| Santa Cruz | a city in central Bolivia |
Belem
Para
Feliz Lusitania
Santa Maria de Belem
St. Mary of Bethlehem | port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta, main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin |
| Santa Ana | a city in southern California to the east of Long Beach |
| Santa Barbara | a town in southwestern California on the Pacific Ocean |
| Santa Clara | a city of west central California, residential area with light industry |
Santa Catalina
Catalina Island | an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California |
| Santa Cruz | a town in western California on Monterey Bay, a tourist center |
Santa Fe
capital of New Mexico | capital of the state of New Mexico, located in north central New Mexico |
Santa Claus
Santa
Kriss Kringle
Father Christmas
Saint Nicholas Saint Nick
St. Nick | the legendary patron saint of children, an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas |
Nilsson
Brigit Nilsson
Marta Brigit Nilsson | Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in ) |
Santa Anna
Santa Ana
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana | Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (-) |
| brush discharge | discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles |