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Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.

Able to sway. [R.] Rush.

To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively. I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. Isa. xiv. 23.

Sweet-scented shrub (Bot.), a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.

The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

Same as Syllabication. Rush. Syllabification depends not on mere force, but on discontinuity of force. H. Sweet.

A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.

A Mexican dish made of crushed maize mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed.

Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. Tame slaves of the laborious plow. Roscommon.

A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.

A rapid, violent gallop; an impetulous rush. Cleverland.

ong, soft fur, and a very long tail with a tuft of long hairs at the end; -- called also brush-tailed phascogale.

To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.

An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm. [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. Milton.

stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.

Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] Drayton. Through the thick they heard one rudely rush. Spenser. He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. Dryden. Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle. -- Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and di…

es of some of the species are bright- colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes.

rail being insulated from the ground and the current being taken off by means of contact brushes or other devices.

A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush. Sage thrasher. (Zoöl.) See under Sage. -- Thrasher whale (Zoöl.), the common killer of the Atlantic.