bush

noun

1. A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

   “I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.”

2. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

   “bushes to support pea vines”

3. (archaic, dialectal)A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.

   “We saw a bush of wood, and in the heart of it a little open space.”

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

   “If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue.”

   “"Well," replied Lady Mary, "who is to know where good wine is sold, unless you hang out the bush."”

5. (slang, vulgar)A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.

   “As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth'd gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar's wallet for its'^([sic]) proviſion.”

   “I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue.”

   “But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush.”

   “I push my seed in her bush for life / It's gonna work because I'm pushing it right”

   “I think on Saturday I'm gonna find out if red-haired girls have a red bush!”

6. The tail, or brush, of a fox.
7. (archaic)A tavern or wine merchant.
8. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South-Africa, countable, often, uncountable)Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.

   “The Gentlemen took to the Bush and escaped being made prisoners.”

   “Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned.”

9. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South-Africa, countable, often, uncountable)Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.

   “(Davis) my Convict Servant who was in the Boat with me begd of me not to goe on Shore he is one of the greatest Cowards living I cald to them again when I got to ther fire for the[y] had run into the bush on there Seing the Boat pulling towards them”

   “I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth.”

   “Little Dot had lost her way in the bush.”

   “The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.”

   “The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest Australia may have to jettison tracts of the bush unless there is a massive investment in climate-change adaptation and planning.”

10. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South-Africa, countable, often, uncountable)Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.
11. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South-Africa, countable, often, uncountable)Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.
12. (Canada, countable, uncountable)A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
13. Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
14. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
15. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
16. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

verb

1. (intransitive)To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

   “Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.”

2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

   “to bush peas”

3. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

   “to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground”

4. To become bushy (often used with up).

   “I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.”

5. (transitive)To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.

   “to bush a pivot hole”

adv

1. (Australia, not-comparable)Towards the direction of the outback.

   “On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.”

adj

1. (colloquial)Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

   “They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname from Middle English.

   “In March 1953, a month after Jeb was born, the Bush family received the devastating news that Robin had leukemia. A local doctor told the Bushes that doctors had never seen a white blood cell count that high and there was nothing they could do for her.”

   “When Larissa Santos opened her front door and saw Rachel Bush for the first time, she was immediately flooded with emotions.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A surname from Middle English.
3. (countable, uncountable)A surname from Middle English.

   “This means Gore will have to stop dancing away from the question as if the pardon decision were somehow shared with the pardonee. It's time he chose the hard right over the easy wrong answer. (For Bush, it would be an opportunity to demonstrate nonpartisan compassion on a grand scale.)”

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