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 |
swaddling clothes | restrictions placed on the immature |
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 |
clothes moth | any of several small yellowish or buffolored moths whose larvae eat organic matter e.g. woolens |
casemaking clothes moth Tinea pellionella | the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins |
webbing clothes moth webbing moth Tineola bisselliella | moth that forms a web in which it lives |
brush-tailed porcupine brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
apparel wearing apparel dress clothes | clothing in general, she was refined in her choice of apparel, he always bought his clothes at the same store, fastidious about his dress |
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 |
civilian clothing civilian dress civilian garb plain clothes | ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc. |
clothes closet clothespress | a closet where clothes are stored |
clothes dryer clothes drier | a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing |
clothes hamper laundry basket clothes basket voider | a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried |
clothespin clothes pin clothes peg | wood or plastic fastener, for holding clothes on a clothesline |
clothes tree coat tree coat stand | an upright pole with pegs or hooks on which to hang clothing |
coat hanger clothes hanger dress hanger | a hanger that is shaped like a person's shoulders and used to hang garments on |
formalwear eveningwear evening dress evening clothes | attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening |
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 |
street clothes | ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.) |
suit suit of clothes | a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color, they buried him in his best suit |
Sunday best Sunday clothes | the best attire you have which is worn to church on Sunday |
swaddling clothes swaddling bands | a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant |
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 |
couturier fashion designer clothes designer designer | someone who designs clothing |
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 |