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Bearing a tuft of brushlike hairs.

A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web.

Any species of bee which has on the hind legs a brush of hairs used for collecting pollen, as the hive bees and bumblebees.

To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. Pope. Scouring barrel, a tumbling barrel. See under Tumbling. -- Scouring cinder (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. Raymond. -- Scouring rush. (…

To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.

One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.

ave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. "Shaving of silver." Chaucer. Shaving brush, a brush used in lathering the face preparatory to shaving it.

To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean. Hazlitt.

cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.

ch are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.

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.

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

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

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

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

Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges. [Obs. Eng.]

A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.

To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right. Pope.

ycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also tussock caterpillar. See Orgyia. Tussock grass. (Bot.) (a) A tall, strong grass of the genus Dactylis (D. cæspitosa), valuable for fodder, introduced i…

Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural. Shrubs and underwoods look well enough while they grow within the shade of oaks and cedars. Addison.