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• Brush — (br[u^]sh), n. [OE. brusche, OF. broche, broce, brosse, brushwood, F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta, brust, bristle, G. borste bristle, b[ u]rste brush. See {Bristle}, n., and cf. {Browse}.] 1. An instrument composed of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Brush-tailed Phascogale — Brush tailed Phascogale[1] Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• brush — brush1 brushable, adj. brusher, n. brushlike, adj. /brush/, n. 1. an implement consisting of bristles, hair, or the like, set in or attached to a handle, used for painting, cleaning, polishing, grooming, etc. 2. one of a pair of devices… …   Universalium

• brush — n. & v. n. 1 an implement with bristles, hair, wire, etc. varying in firmness set into a block or projecting from the end of a handle, for any of various purposes, esp. cleaning or scrubbing, painting, arranging the hair, etc. 2 the application… …   Useful english dictionary

• brush-tailed porcupine — noun porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail • Syn: ↑brush tail porcupine • Hypernyms: ↑Old World porcupine • Member Holonyms: ↑Atherurus, ↑genus Atherurus * * * noun …   Useful english dictionary

• brush — I [[t]brʌʃ[/t]] n. 1) an implement consisting of bristles, hair, or the like and a handle, used for painting, cleaning, grooming, etc 2) mad either of a pair of wire bristled, brushlike devices used to mark a soft rhythmic beat on drums or… …   From formal English to slang

• Brush-tailed porcupine — Taxobox name = Brush tailed porcupines fossil range = Early Pleistocene to Recent image width = 300px image caption = African brush tailed porcupine sold for meat in Cameroon regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia… …   Wikipedia

• brush — I. noun Etymology: Middle English brusch, from an Anglo French form akin to Old French broce brushwood, Medieval Latin brusca Date: 14th century 1. brushwood 2. a. scrub vegetation b. land covered with scrub vegetation II. noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• brush-tail porcupine — noun porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail • Syn: ↑brush tailed porcupine • Hypernyms: ↑Old World porcupine • Member Holonyms: ↑Atherurus, ↑genus Atherurus * * * noun se …   Useful english dictionary

• brush-tailed phascogale — Tapoa tafa Ta*po a ta fa (Zo[ o]l.) A small carnivorous marsupial ({Phascogale penicillata}) having long, soft fur, and a very long tail with a tuft of long hairs at the end; called also {brush tailed phascogale}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• brush trap — see brushwood fishery and eel tuft …   Dictionary of ichthyology