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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
brush discharge | discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles |
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 |
polish round round off polish up brush up | bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state, polish your social manners |
brush | remove with or as if with a brush, brush away the crumbs, brush the dust from the jacket, brush aside the objections |
review brush up refresh | refresh one's memory, I reviewed the material before the test |
dismiss disregard brush aside brush off discount push aside ignore | bar from attention or consideration, She dismissed his advances |
tell off brush down | reprimand, She told the misbehaving student off |
brush | touch lightly and briefly, He brushed the wall lightly |
brush | rub with a brush, or as if with a brush, Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket |
brush | clean with a brush, She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet |
brush on | apply with a brush, Brush butter on the roast |
brush | cover by brushing, brush the bread with melted butter |
brush sweep | sweep across or over, Her long skirt brushed the floor, A gasp swept cross the audience |