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Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.

Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving.

In a busy manner.

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business Luke ii. 4…

In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

one, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset. Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, Is all that makes her thus angelical. Marston.

Wearing a busk. Pollok.

A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet. [Obs.] Spenser.

e foot, coming some distance up the leg. The hunted red deer's undressed hide Their hairy buskins well supplied. Sir W. Scott.

Wearing buskins. Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope.

See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n. Shak.

To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely. "Nor bussed the milking maid." Tennyson. Kissing and bussing differ both in this, We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss. Herrick.

east. Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust The faithless column, and the crumbling bust. Pope.

A bird of the genus Otis.

Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. And leave the world for me to bustle in. Shak.

An active, stirring person.

Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.

A bust; a statue. With some antick bustoes in the niches. Ashmole.

Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant. Sir, my mistress sends you word THat she is busy, and she can not come. Shak.