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 |
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 |
acrylic acrylic paint | used especially by artists |
antifouling paint | a paint used to protect against the accumulation of barnacles etc. on underwater surfaces |
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 |
casein paint casein | a water-base paint made with a protein precipitated from milk |
coat of paint | a layer of paint covering something else |
finger paint fingerpaint | paint that has the consistency of jelly |
house paint housepaint | paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house |
latex paint latex rubber-base paint | a water-base paint that has a latex binder |
makeup make-up war paint | cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance |
oil paint | paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle |
paint pigment | a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid), dries to form a hard coating, artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably |
paint roller | a roller that has an absorbent surface used for spreading paint |
rigger rigger brush | a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists |
rouge paint blusher | makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks |
sable sable brush sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
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 |
spray paint | paint applied with a spray gun |
tempera poster paint poster color poster colour | pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk |
war paint | full ceremonial regalia |
war paint | adornment consisting of paint applied to the face and body of certain Amerindians before a battle |
water-base paint | paint in which water is used as the vehicle |
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 |
key paint | (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court, usually painted a different color from the rest of the court, he hit a jump shot from the top of the key, he dominates play in the paint |
brush discharge | discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles |
strawberry blite strawberry pigweed Indian paint Chenopodium capitatum | European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit, naturalized North America |
quail bush quail brush white thistle Atriplex lentiformis | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
sagebrush sage brush | any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium |
bud brush bud sagebrush Artemis spinescens | a perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States |
coyote brush coyote bush chaparral broom kidney wort Baccharis pilularis | widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle |
rabbit brush rabbit bush Chrysothamnus nauseosus | pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits, source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo |
shaving-brush tree Pseudobombax ellipticum | tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear |
hoary puccoon Indian paint Lithospermum canescens | perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment |