| 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 |
| duster | a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter |
| 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 |
brass knucks
knucks
brass knuckles
knuckles
knuckle duster | a small metal weapon, worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand |
| 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 |
dustcloth
dustrag
duster | a piece of cloth used for dusting |
duster
gaberdine
gabardine smock
dust coat | a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles |
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 |
fingermark
fingerprint | a smudge made by a (dirty) finger |
| brush cut | a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush |
DNA fingerprint
genetic fingerprint | biometric identification obtained by examining a person's unique sequence of DNA base pairs, often used for evidence in criminal law cases |
| fingerprint | a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger, often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations |
| fingerprint | a generic term for any identifying characteristic, that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it |
| 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 |
fingerprint expert
fingerprint specialist
fingerprint man | a specialist in identifying fingerprints |
| brush discharge | discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles |
dust storm
duster
sandstorm
sirocco | a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand, it was the kind of duster not experienced in years |
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 |