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Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.

ilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson. A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the…

A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.

A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.

Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.

An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.

A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate. Balfour (Cyc. of India). Jungle bear (Zoöl.), the aswail o…

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

A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.

ates, typically elliptical in form, with a rough frame covered with reed mats or grass or brushwood.