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

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

The bushy tail of a fox.

The condition or quality of being bushy.

, 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.

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

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

Having a compact, bushy form.

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

The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter. Black flag. See under Black. -- Flag captain, Flag leutenant, etc., special officers attached to the flagship, as aids to the flag officer. -- Flag officer, the commander of a fleet or squadron; an admiral, or commodore. -- Flag of truse, a white flag carried or displayed to…

he air. -- Fly honeysuckle (Bot.), a plant of the honeysuckle genus (Lonicera), having a bushy stem and the flowers in pairs, as L. ciliata and L. Xylosteum. -- Fly hook, a fishhook supplied with an artificial fly. -- Fly leaf, an unprinted leaf at the beginning or end of a book, circular, programme, etc. -- Fly ma…

), one of several South American wild dogs, belonging to the genus Canis. They have long, bushy tails like a fox.

two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes. [Written also gnoo.]

ting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and lik…

us Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.

l West American galago (Galago murinus). In color and size it resembles a mouse. It has a bushy tail like that of a squirrel. -- Mouse hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A hawk that devours mice. (b) The hawk owl; -- called also mouse owl. -- Mouse lemur (Zoöl.), any one of several species of very small lemurs of the genus Chirogaleu…

largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.

A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.

A thick, bushy plot; a thicket. [Obs.] Chapman.