bush

Definitions

1. 1noun

   A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

2. 2noun

   A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

3. 3noun

   A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

4. 4noun

   A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

5. 5noun

   The tail, or brush, of a fox.

6. 6intransitive verb

   To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

7. 7transitive verb

   To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

8. 8transitive verb

   To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

9. 9noun

   A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

10. 10noun

    A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

11. 11transitive verb

    To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

12. 12noun

    hair growing in the pubic area

13. 13noun

    dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

    Synonyms

    chaparralscrub
14. 14noun

    a large wilderness area

15. 15noun

    vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)

16. 16noun

    United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)

17. 17noun

    43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)

18. 18noun

    a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

    Synonyms

    shrub
19. 19verb

    provide with a bushing

20. 20adjective

    not of the highest quality or sophistication