Definitions for brushes

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brushes brush

Spelling: [bruhsh]

IPA: /brʌʃ/

Brushes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in brushes (behrssu).

Definitions for brushes

noun

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 consisting of long, thin handles with wire bristles attached, used in jazz or dance bands for keeping a soft, rhythmic beat on the trap drums or the cymbals.
3. the bushy tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
4. Electricity. a conductor, often made of carbon or copper or a combination of the two, serving to maintain electric contact between stationary and moving parts of a machine, generator, or other apparatus. brush discharge.
5. a feathery or hairy tuft or tassel, as on the tip of a kernel of grain or on a man's hat.
6. an act or instance of brushing; application of a brush.
7. a light, stroking touch.
8. a brief encounter:
9. a close approach, especially to something undesirable or harmful:
10. a dense growth of bushes, shrubs, etc.; scrub; thicket.
11. a pile or covering of lopped or broken branches; brushwood.
12. bushes and low trees growing in thick profusion, especially close to the ground.
13. Also called brushland. land or an area covered with thickly growing bushes and low trees.
14. backwoods; a sparsely settled wooded region.
15. Katharine, 1902–52, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

Idioms

1. get the brush, to be rejected or rebuffed:
2. give the brush, to ignore, rebuff, etc.:

Verb phrases

1. brush aside, to disregard; ignore:
2. brush off, to rebuff; send away:
3. brush up on, to revive, review, or resume (studies, a skill, etc.): Also, brush up.

verb (used with object)

1. to sweep, paint, clean, polish, etc., with a brush.
2. to touch lightly in passing; pass lightly over:
3. to remove by brushing or by lightly passing over:

verb (used without object)

1. to move or skim with a slight contact.

Origin of brushes

1350-1400; (noun) Middle English brusshe, probably to be identified with brush², if orig. sense was implement made from twigs, etc., culled from brushwood

Examples for brushes

Yet I hold that the true art of my craft lies as much in the furnace as in the brush.

It was starting to look like Cosby might not brush this scandal off.

brush the packages all over with melted butter, cover, and refrigerate until ready to bake.

They saw that the brush had been cut from the ground outside the stockade, as if for battle.

brush with milk, dredge with sugar, and bake for about 1/2 hour.

I had eaten all the brush in the ravine and was beginning to be lonely.

Pat the chicken dry with paper towels, place on a sheet pan, brush with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

"There are pigments, brush, and paper," said the old artist.

But just up the steep river bank and through the brush is an opening.

brush the pastry with egg wash and sprinkle with fleur de sel and pepper.