(brush) noun
1. An implement having bristles, hair, feathers, wire, or other flexible fibrous material, fixed in a handle or a back, and used for sweeping, scrubbing, painting, cleansing, smoothing, etc.
2. The act of brushing.
3. A light, grazing touch.
4. A skirmish; a short, brisk fight.
5. Brushwork.
6. Any object resembling a brush, as the bushy tail or bushy part of the tail of various animals, especially the fox.
7. Elect. a A strip of metal, bundle of wire, or bunch of slit metal plates, bearing on the commutator cylinder of a dynamo, for carrying off the current or for an external current through a motor. b A brush discharge.
8. A brushlike appearance in certain phenomena of polarized light.
—v.t.
1. To use a brush on; sweep, polish, smooth, paint, etc., with or as with a brush.
2. To remove with or as with a brush.
3. To touch lightly in passing; touch upon briefly.
—v.i.
4. To move lightly and quickly, often with a touch: to brush past someone.
—to brush aside To deny consideration to.
—to brush up
1. To refresh one's knowledge of.
2. To renovate; refurbish.
—to brush up against To come into slight contact with. [<OF brosse butcher-broom, brush,? <Gmc.]

(brush) noun
1. A growth of small trees and shrubs; hence, wooded country sparsely settled; backwoods.
2. Lopped-off bushes or branches of trees; brushwood. [<OF broche,? <Gmc.]