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th branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs. To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers. Gascoigne.

See Bushman.

A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure. Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not to be set on a candlestick Mark iv. 21.

A duty payable on commodities by the bushel. [Eng.]

A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler. [Local, U.S.]

A small bush.

One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman.

Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.

To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite.

The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.

The condition or quality of being bushy.

The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

Free from bushes; bare. O'er the long backs of the bushless downs. Tennyson.

A woodsman; a settler in the bush.

A thicket; a cluster of bushes. [Obs.] Raleigh.

One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.

One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes. [U.S.] They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. W. Irving.

Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.

Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving.

eril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.