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The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.

ccompanying; in waiting. From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord. Milton.

Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore. Weale.

Rubbed; worn by friction. Milton.

The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

The Neapolitan medlar (Cratægus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit.

An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs. Dryden.

A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]…

To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.

e purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs. [Archaic] Shak.

a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.

A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid.

The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree. Bayberry tallow, a fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry or wax myrtle; -- called also myrtle wax.

A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.

Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.