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Christlike. H. Bushnell.

A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheve.

Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.

A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter. [Written also comb.]

A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. Black currant,a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and R. floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. -- Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very…

Moving about slightly. [R.] H. Bushnell.

r a competitor in trade. -- To cut up. (a) To cut to pieces; as, to cut up an animal, or bushes. (b) To damage or destroy; to injure; to wound; as, to cut up a book or its author by severe criticism. "This doctrine cuts up all government by the roots." Locke. (c) To afflict; to discourage; to demoralize; as, the death…

bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. Did to a lonely cot his steps decoy. Thomson. E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. Goldsmith.

Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac. "Demonic ambushes." Lowell.

ustralia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.

To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

sonry. -- Dry measure, a system of measures of volume for dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc. -- Dry pile (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also…

Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly. [R.]

Abounding with bushes and briers.

a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).

To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. [Obs.] S. Butler.

An ambush. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth.