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The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

A brush for cleaning the teeth.

Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

To rush upward. Southey.

A North American bird of the genus Seiurus, belonging to the Warbler family, especially the common species (S. Noveboracensis).

arous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they. "So would I a done" "A brushes his hat." Shak.

ir sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.

In a frenzied and reckless. To run amuck, to rush out in a state of frenzy, as the Malays sometimes do under the influence of "bhang," and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope.…

The disease, also called thrush.

h, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

Of the nature of aphthæ; resembling thrush.

resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing. "His arrowy tongue." Cowper. By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. Byron. With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities. Carlyle.

Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]

A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

d fitted for cultivation; a clearing. Ash. Assart land, forest land cleared of woods and brush.

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town. The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwe…

Destitute of tone vocality; surd. Rush.