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<A NAME="bush">
<B>bush</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a woody plant smaller than a tree, often with many separate branches starting from or near the ground. Some bushes are used as hedges; others are grown for their fruit or for ornament. <DD><B> 2a. </B>open forest or wild land. <BR> <I>Ex. The explorer went into the bush of Alaska. He came out of the shadow of the bush path and blinked in the sun (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the country as opposed to the town. <DD><B> 3a. </B>something resembling a bush, such as unruly hair or feathers. <BR> <I>Ex. ... little streams of soda water irrigated the black bush on his chest (Graham Greene).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Obsolete.) a fox's tail; brush. <DD><B> 4a. </B>a branch, especially of ivy, hung out as a vintner's sign or as the sign of a tavern. <DD><B> b. </B>any tavern sign. <BR> <I>Ex. Good wine needs no bush (Old proverb).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to spread out like a bush; grow thickly. <BR> <I>Ex. She stood, Half spied, so thick the roses bushing round About her glowed (Milton).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>(Informal.) to exhaust utterly. <BR> <I>Ex. The trip completely bushed her.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to set (ground) with bushes; cover with bushes. <DD><B> 3. </B>to protect with bushes or brushwood. <DD><B> 4. </B>to smooth (planted land) by means of a bushharrow. <BR><I>expr. <B>beat around</B> (or <B>about</B>) <B>the bush,</B> </I>to avoid a direct answer or direct action; not come straight to the point. <BR> <I>Ex. Tell me the facts now, and don't beat around the bush. Obliged to be off: Excuse me ... but no good beating about the bush (Punch).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>beat the bushes</B> (<B>for</B>), </I>(Especially U.S.) to search (for), in or as if in remote areas. <BR> <I>Ex. to beat the bushes for new customers, to beat the bushes to find a good job.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>go bush,</B> </I>(Australian.) to live a wild life, as in the bush, or as a bushranger. <BR> <I>Ex. The English settlers ... tried to tame them for domestic purposes. But the greater number had already 'gone bush' (M. Terry).</I> </DL>
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<B>bush</B> (2), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Machinery.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=bushing.</B> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to furnish with a bushing; line (a bearing or the like) with metal. </DL>
<A NAME="bushbaby">
<B>bush baby,</B> <B>=galago.</B></DL>
<A NAME="bushbasil">
<B>bush basil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> small cultivated form of sweet basil. </DL>
<A NAME="bushbean">
<B>bush bean,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of nonclimbing bean. </DL>
<A NAME="bushbeating">
<B>bush-beating, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a random but thorough search, as for people of talent, dishonesty in government, or other investigative findings. </DL>
<B>bush dog,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=potto.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a wild dog of South America. </DL>
<A NAME="bushed">
<B>bushed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Informal.) very tired; exhausted. <BR> <I>Ex. He kept you right on your toes, and, after an hour and a half, you went out feeling pretty bushed (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>lost in the bush. <DD><B> 3. </B>bewildered; at a loss. </DL>
<A NAME="bushel">
<B>bushel</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a measure for grain, fruit, vegetables, and other dry things. It is equal to 4 pecks or 32 quarts or 35.2383 liters. <DD><B> 2. </B>a container that holds a bushel. <DD><B> 3. </B>the weight of a bushel. (Abbr:) bu. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) an indefinitely large quantity. <BR> <I>Ex. I have a bushel of things to do today.</I> </DL>
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<B>bushel</B> (2), transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-eled,</B> <B>-eling</B> or <B>-elled,</B> <B>-elling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) to repair or alter (clothing). </DL>
<A NAME="bushelbasket">
<B>bushel basket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a basket that holds a bushel. </DL>
<A NAME="busheler">
<B>busheler</B> or <B>busheller, </B>noun. <B>=bushelman.</B></DL>
<A NAME="bushelful">
<B>bushelful, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fuls.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a quantity of material occupying a bushel. </DL>
<A NAME="bushelman">
<B>bushelman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> tailor's assistant who repairs garments; busheler. </DL>
<A NAME="busher">
<B>busher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a baseball player in a minor league. <DD><B> 2. </B>a beginner, especially a clumsy beginner, at anything. </DL>
<A NAME="bushfire">
<B>bushfire, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an uncontrolled fire in a bush, especially the Australian bush. </DL>
<A NAME="bushhammer">
<B>bushhammer, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a hammer with a notched face, used to dress stone. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to dress (stone) with a bushhammer. </DL>
<A NAME="bushharrow">
<B>bushharrow, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a frame with bushes or branches attached for covering seed. </DL>
<A NAME="bushhat">
<B>bush hat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a slouch hat, especially of the type worn by Australian bushmen. </DL>
<A NAME="bushhoneysuckle">
<B>bush honeysuckle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a low shrub native to North America extensively cultivated for its profuse, yellow flowers. </DL>
<A NAME="bushido">
<B>Bushido</B> or <B>bushido, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the moral code of the knights and warriors of feudal Japan; Japanese chivalry. </DL>
<A NAME="bushing">
<B>bushing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a removable metal lining used to protect parts of machinery from wear. <DD><B> 2. </B>a metal lining inserted in a hole, pipe, or other aperture, to reduce its size. <DD><B> 3. </B>a lining for a hole, to insulate one or more wires or other electrical conductors passing through. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Slang.) very high-pressure selling; luring a buyer by offering a bargain price, then hiking the price. </DL>
<A NAME="bushjacket">
<B>bush jacket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sports or hunting jacket with shirtlike collar and sleeves, usually having four pockets and a belt; bush shirt. </DL>
<B>bush lawyer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in Australia) a glib person claiming to be knowledgeable in law. </DL>
<A NAME="bushleague">
<B>bush league,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a minor league in baseball. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) any insignificant or inexpert group, person, or organization. <BR> <I>Ex. There will be far less whistle-stopping and fewer talks with local bosses, now that TV is out of the bush league of politicking (Time).</I> adj. <B>bush-league.</B> </DL>
<B>bushman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Australian.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a settler in the Australian bush. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who knows much about life in the bush. </DL>
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<B>Bushman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a tribe of roving hunters of southern Africa. Bushmen formerly lived in all South Africa but now live mainly in and around the Kalahari Desert region. <DD><B> 2. </B>the language of this tribe, consisting of a number of local dialects and related to the Hottentot language. </DL>
<A NAME="bushmaster">
<B>bushmaster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the largest poisonous snake of tropical America. </DL>
<A NAME="bushnegro">
<B>Bush Negro,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any individual of a people of Surinam (Dutch Guiana) descended from African slaves who escaped from the Dutch into the bush before slavery was abolished in the mid-1800's. </DL>
<A NAME="bushpig">
<B>bush pig,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a South African wild swine; boschvark. </DL>
<A NAME="bushpilot">
<B>bush pilot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a pilot who flies a small plane over unsettled country, such as northern Canada and parts of Alaska. <DD><B> 2. </B>a pilot accustomed to flying without benefit of ground-based navigational aids, large airports, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. The bush pilots who fly sportsmen in for the kill make a handsome living (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bushranger">
<B>bushranger, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who ranges in the bush; woodsman. <DD><B> 2. </B>a criminal hiding in the Australian bush who lives by robbery. </DL>
<A NAME="bushrope">
<B>bushrope, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tropical creeper tangling trees together. </DL>
<A NAME="bushshirt">
<B>bush shirt,</B> <B>=bush jacket.</B></DL>
<A NAME="bushsickness">
<B>bush sickness,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in bush country, especially New Zealand) an anemic condition of sheep, cattle, and other grazing animals, caused by a lack of certain minerals in the pasture. </DL>
<A NAME="bushtea">
<B>bush tea,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the leaves of a South African plant of the pea family, dried to make tea. <DD><B> 2. </B>the strong-scented tea made from these leaves. </DL>
<A NAME="bushtelegraph">
<B>bush telegraph,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the means by which news is quickly spread in wild country; grapevine. </DL>
<A NAME="bushtit">
<B>bush tit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small North American titmouse, noted for building an elaborate pendent nest. </DL>
<B>bushwhack, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to live in or work in the bush or backwoods. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to attack or fight, as a bushwhacker. <BR> <I>Ex. Snipers bushwhacked lone Red couriers on the new road to Lhasa (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bushwhacker">
<B>bushwhacker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who lives or works in wooded areas. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who clears out underbrush. <DD><B> 3. </B>a scythe for cutting bushes. <DD><B> 4a. </B>a guerrilla fighter. <DD><B> b. </B>a guerrilla on the Confederate side in the Civil War. </DL>
<A NAME="bushwhacking">
<B>bushwhacking, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of beating one's way through bushes. <DD><B> 2. </B>fighting from behind bushes, rocks, or from other hiding places; guerrilla warfare. </DL>
