Definition of Brush

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Definition of Brush

Brush

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

The bushy tail of a fox.

A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.

A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.

A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.

A short contest, or trial, of speed.

To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.

To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.

To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.

To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

In Australia, a dense growth of vegetation in good soil, including shrubs and trees, mostly small.

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Brush Quotations

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
Samuel Adams

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
William Hazlitt

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.
Lee Scott

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
Berthe Morisot

I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.
Don Bluth

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
Whittaker Chambers

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.
Lawrence Kasdan

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
Donald Judd

Brush Translations

brush in Afrikaans is borsel
brush in Dutch is borstelen, schuieren
brush in Finnish is harja
brush in French is brosse, brossent, brosser, brossons, brossez
brush in Italian is pennello, spazzola
brush in Latin is peniculus
brush in Portuguese is escova
brush in Spanish is brocha, cepillo, pincel, cepillar
brush in Swedish is borste, borsta, pensel

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