brush : Idioms & Phrases

• a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.

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• noun a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant
  

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• verb bar from attention or consideration
  dismiss; brush aside; ignore; discount; push aside; disregard.
  
  • She dismissed his advances

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• noun a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush
  

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• noun discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles
  

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• verb reprimand
  tell off.
  
  • She told the misbehaving student off

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• noun an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes
  

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• noun any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored
  wallaby.
  

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• verb bar from attention or consideration
  dismiss; brush aside; ignore; discount; push aside; disregard.
  
  • She dismissed his advances

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• verb apply with a brush
  
  • Brush butter on the roast

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• noun black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
  Alectura lathami.
  

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Brush" tur`key

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1. (Zoöl.) A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. ✍ The brush turkeys live in the "brush," and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying vegetable matter, which generates heat sufficient to hatch the numerous eggs (sometimes half a bushel) deposited in it by the females of the flock.

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• verb refresh one's memory
  review; refresh.
  
  • I reviewed the material before the test
• verb bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
  polish up; polish; round; round off.
  
  • polish your social manners

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Brush" wheel`

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1. A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.
2. A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.

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• noun small wolf native to western North America
  coyote; prairie wolf; Canis latrans.
  

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• noun medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast
  nymphalid butterfly; nymphalid; four-footed butterfly.
  

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• noun a curt or disdainful rejection
  

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• noun porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail
  brush-tail porcupine.
  

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• noun bushy-tailed phalanger
  Trichosurus vulpecula.
  

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• noun porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail
  brush-tail porcupine.
  

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• noun a perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States
  bud sagebrush; Artemis spinescens.
  

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• noun widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle
  coyote bush; kidney wort; chaparral broom; Baccharis pilularis.
  

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• a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table.

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• a yard whalebone brush.

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• a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.

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• (Zoöl.), the tail of a fox.

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• noun spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico
  Atriplex lentiformis; white thistle; quail bush.
  

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• noun 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
  Chrysothamnus nauseosus; rabbit bush.
  

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• noun a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
  rigger.
  

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• noun an artist's brush made of sable hairs
  sable; sable's hair pencil.
  

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• noun any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium
  sagebrush.
  

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• noun a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning
  scrubber; scrub brush.
  

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• noun a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning
  scrubber; scrub brush.
  

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• noun a brush used to apply lather prior to shaving
  

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• a brush used in lathering the face preparatory to shaving it.

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• noun tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear
  Pseudobombax ellipticum.
  

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• to remove from one's way, as with a brush.

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• to remove, as with a brush or brushing motion.

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• to paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew.

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