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Bush

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive), Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Bush has 7 senses

Verb Bush has 1 sense

Adjective Bush has 1 sense

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CIDE DICTIONARY
Bush, n. [OE. bosch, busch, buysch, bosk, busk; akin to D. bosch, OHG. busc, G. busch, Icel. b, b, Dan. busk, Sw. buske, and also to LL. boscus, buscus, Pr. bosc, It. bosco, Sp. & Pg. bosque, F. bois, OF. bos. Whether the LL. or G. form is the original is uncertain; if the LL., it is perh. from the same source as E. box a case. Cf. Ambush, Boscage, Bouquet, Box a case.].
  •  A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.  [1913 Webster]
    " This was the original sense of the word, as in the Dutch bosch, a wood, and was so used by Chaucer. In this sense it is extensively used in the British colonies, especially at the Cape of Good Hope, and also in Australia and Canada; as, to live or settle in the bush."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.  [1913 Webster]
    "To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.  [1913 Webster]
    "If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue."  [1913 Webster]
  •  The tail, or brush, of a fox.  [1913 Webster]
To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean (Bot.), a variety of bean which is low and requires no support (Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1. -- Bush buck, or Bush goat (Zoöl.), a beautiful South African antelope (Tragelaphus sylvaticus); -- so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species. -- Bush cat (Zoöl.), the serval. See Serval. -- Bush chat (Zoöl.), a bird of the genus Pratincola, of the Thrush family. -- Bush dog. (Zoöl.) See Potto. -- Bush hammer. See Bushhammer in the Vocabulary. -- Bush harrow (Agric.) See under Harrow. -- Bush hog (Zoöl.), a South African wild hog (Potamochœrus Africanus); -- called also bush pig, and water hog. -- Bush master (Zoöl.), a venomous snake (Lachesis mutus) of Guinea; -- called also surucucu. -- Bush pea (Bot.), a variety of pea that needs to be bushed. -- Bush shrike (Zoöl.), a bird of the genus Thamnophilus, and allied genera; -- called also batarg. Many species inhabit tropical America. -- Bush tit (Zoöl.), a small bird of the genus Psaltriparus, allied to the titmouse. Psaltriparus minimus inhabits California.
Bush, v. i. 
     To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
Bush, v. t. 
  •  To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.  [1913 Webster]
Bush, n. [D. bus a box, akin to E. box; or F. boucher to plug.].
  •  A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]
    " In the larger machines, such a piece is called a box, particularly in the United States."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.  Farrow.  [1913 Webster]
Bush, v. t. 
     To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.  [1913 Webster]
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Bush, n.
1 a shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length.
2 a thing resembling this, esp. a clump of hair or fur.
3 (esp. in Australia and Africa) a wild uncultivated district; woodland or forest.
4 hist. a bunch of ivy as a vintner's sign.

Idiom
bush-baby (pl. -ies) a small African tree-climbing lemur; a galago. bush basil a culinary herb, Ocimum minimum. bush jacket a light cotton jacket with a belt. bush lawyer 1 Austral. & NZ a person claiming legal knowledge without qualifications for it.
2 NZ a bramble. bush-ranger hist. an Australian outlaw living in the bush. bush sickness a disease of animals due to a lack of cobalt in the soil. bush telegraph rapid spreading of information, a rumour, etc. go bush Austral. leave one's usual surroundings; run wild.
Bush, n. & v.
--n.
1 a metal lining for a round hole enclosing a revolving shaft etc.
2 a sleeve providing electrical insulation.
--v.tr. provide with a bush.

Etymology
MDu. busse BOX(1)
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THESAURUS

Bush

Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, afforestation, arboretum, back country, backcountry, backwash, backwater, backwoods, barren, barren land, barrens, boondock, boondocks, borderland, bramble, brier, brier bush, brush, brushwood, bush country, bushing, bushveld, chase, climax forest, cloud forest, dendrology, desert, desolation, doubling, doublure, dust bowl, facing, filler, filling, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, forests, fringing forest, frontier, gallery forest, greenwood, hanger, heath, hinterland, howling wilderness, index forest, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, jungle, jungles, karroo, liner, lining, lunar landscape, lunar waste, national forest, outback, outpost, packing, padding, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pine barrens, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, reforestation, salt flat, scrub, scrubland, scrubwood, selection forest, shrub, shrubbery, shrubland, shrubwood, silviculture, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, stuffing, the bush, timber, timberland, timbers, tree veld, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin forest, virgin land, virgin territory, wadding, wainscot, waste, wasteland, weary waste, wild, wild West, wilderness, wilds, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlands, woods
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Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.

Plain

N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval, vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

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buck

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Noun, Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun buck has 5 senses

Verb buck has 4 senses

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CIDE DICTIONARY
buck, n. [Akin to LG. bÜke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. buée.].
  •  Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
buck, v. t. [OE. bouken; akin to LG. bÜken, Dan. byge, Sw. byka, G. bauchen, beuchen; cf. OF. buer. Cf. the preceding noun.].
  •  To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To break up or pulverize, as ores.  [1913 Webster]
buck, n. [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua, he-goat; akin to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W. bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend b, Skr. bukka. √256. Cf. Butcher, n.].
  •  The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.  [1913 Webster]
    " A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind."  Brande & C.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.  [1913 Webster]
    "The leading bucks of the day."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A male Indian or negro.  [1913 Webster]
    " The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck."  [1913 Webster]
Blue buck. See under Blue. -- Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of Antelope.
buck, v. i. 
  •  To copulate, as bucks and does.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.  [1913 Webster]
buck, v. t. 
  •  To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.  [1913 Webster]
    "The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle."  [1913 Webster]
buck, n. 
     A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.  [1913 Webster]
Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.
buck, n. [See Beech, n.].
     The beech tree.  [1913 Webster]
Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.
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buck, n. & v.
--n.
1 the male of various animals, esp. the deer, hare, or rabbit.
2 archaic a fashionable young man.
3 (attrib.) a sl. male (buck antelope). b US Mil. of the lowest rank (buck private).
--v.
1 intr. (of a horse) jump upwards with back arched and feet drawn together.
2 tr. a (usu. foll. by off) throw (a rider or burden) in this way. b US oppose, resist.
3 tr. & intr. (usu. foll. by up) colloq. a make or become more cheerful. b hurry.
4 tr. (as bucked adj.) colloq. encouraged, elated.

Idiom
buck fever US nervousness when called on to act. buck-horn horn of buck as a material for knife-handles etc. buck-hound a small kind of staghound. buck rarebit Welsh rarebit with a poached egg on top. buck-tooth an upper tooth that projects.
Derivative
bucker n.
buck, n. US etc. sl. a dollar.

Idiom
a fast buck easy money.
buck, n. sl. an article placed as a reminder before a player whose turn it is to deal at poker.

Idiom
pass the buck colloq. shift responsibility (to another).
buck, n.
1 US a saw-horse.
2 a vaulting-horse.

buck, n. the body of a cart.

buck, n. conversation; boastful talk.

Etymology
Hindi buk buk
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THESAURUS

buck

Beau Brummel, Belgian hare, Cape elk, Highland fling, Virginia deer, and jump, antagonize, antelope, assault, battle, bear, bear upon, beat against, beat up against, billy, billy goat, bloke, blood, blunt, boar, bone, boodle, boost, bounce, bound, boy, brass, bray, bread, breast the wave, broad jump, bub, bubba, bubbly-jock, buck off, buckjump, bucks, bud, buddy, buffet, buffet the waves, bull, bulldoze, bullock, bump, bump against, bunny, bunt, butt, butt against, cabbage, camel, camelopard, capriole, caribou, chanticleer, chap, chips, clear, close with, clotheshorse, cock, cockerel, colt, combat, comminute, compete with, contend against, contest, contriturate, convey, cottontail, coxcomb, cram, crowd, crush, cub, curvet, dandy, deer, deerlet, demivolt, depose, deracinate, dig, dinero, dislodge, dismount, dispute, doe, doeling, dog, dough, drake, drive, dromedary, dude, duel, eland, elbow, elk, entire, entire horse, exquisite, fallow deer, fawn, fellow, ferry, fight, fight against, fish, fledgling, flying jump, force, frogskin, galliard, gander, gazelle, gee, gelandesprung, gelt, gent, gentleman, gilt, giraffe, gnu, goad, goat, gobbler, grand jete, grapple with, grease, green, green stuff, guy, hand, handspring, hare, hart, hartebeest, he, he-goat, high jump, hind, hippety-hop, hobbledehoy, hop, horse, hump, hurdle, hurtle, hustle, jab, jack, jackrabbit, jam, jete, jig, jog, joggle, join battle with, jolt, jostle, jump, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off, kaama, kale, kid, labor against, lad, laddie, lapin, lavolta, leap, leap over, leapfrog, leporide, leveret, long jump, lounge lizard, macaroni, manchild, master, mazuma, militate against, moolah, moose, mopus, morris, mountain goat, muchacho, mule deer, musk deer, nanny, nanny goat, negotiate, nudge, offer resistance, oil of palms, ointment, okapi, oof, ooftish, oppose, overjump, overleap, overskip, pack, peacock, pile drive, poke, pole vault, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, powder, press, prod, punch, pup, puppy, push, rabbit, ram, ram down, rattle, reach, red deer, reindeer, reluct, reluctate, repel, rhino, rival, rocks, roe, roe deer, roebuck, rooster, root out, root up, run, run against, running broad jump, running high jump, saut de basque, sawbuck, sawhorse, schoolboy, shake, she-goat, shekels, shoot, shoulder, shove, simoleons, ski jump, skin, skip, smacker, sonny, sonny boy, spondulics, spring, springbok, stag, stallion, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, steer, stem the tide, stot, stress, strive against, struggle against, stud, studhorse, sugar, take on, tamp, the needful, throw off, thrust, tin, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tote, tour jete, transport, traverse, trestle, trestle and table, trestle board, trestle table, trestlework, trestling, triturate, tup, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, unhorse, unplace, unsaddle, unseat, updive, upleap, uproot, upspring, vault, vie with, wampum, wether, whelp, wildebeest, withstand, workhorse, young man, youth
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Cleanness

VB be clean, render clean, clean, cleanse, mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up, wash, lave, launder, buck, absterge, deterge, decrassify, clear, purify, depurate, despumate, defecate, purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack, filter, filtrate, drain, strain, disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize, whitewash, castrate, emasculate, sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep, rout out, clear out, sweep out, make a clean sweep of.

Fop

N fop, fine gentleman, swell, dandy, dandiprat, exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man, fribble, milliner, Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight, masher, dude, fine lady, coquette, flirt, vamp.

Leap

N leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation, ance, caper, curvet, caracole, gambade, gambado, capriole, demivolt, buck, buck jump, hop skip and jump, falcade, kangaroo, jerboa, chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea, buckjumper, wallaby, leaping, saltatory, frisky, on the light fantastic toe, di salto in salto.

VB leap, jump up, jump over the moon, hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper, buck, buck jump, curvet, caracole, foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start, frisk, jump about, trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.

Animal

N animal, animal kingdom, fauna, brute creation, beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being, creeping thing, living thing, dumb animal, dumb creature, zoophyte, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe, microbe, animalcule, alligator, crocodile, saurian, dinosaur (extinct), snake, serpent, viper, eft, asp, aspick, frog, toad, trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel, ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee, tardigrade, spider, biped, quadruped, webfoot, flocks and herds, live stock, domestic animals, wild animals, game, ferae naturae, beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea, black game, black grouse, blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe, horse, cattle, kine, ox, bull, bullock, cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn, sheep, lamb, lambkin, ewe, ram, tup, pig, swine, boar, hog, sow, steer, stot, tag, teg, bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat, dog, hound, pup, puppy, whelp, cur, mongrel, house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog, mastiff, blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound, harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever, Newfoundland, water dog, water spaniel, pug, poodle, turnspit, terrier, fox terrier, Skye terrier, Dandie Dinmont, collie, feline, puss, pussy, grimalkin, gib cat, tom cat, fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe, caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar, bird, poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl, feathered tribes, feathered songster, singing bird, dicky bird, canary, warbler, finch, aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon, vermin, varmint, pest, animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy, piscatory, piscatorial, molluscous, vermicular, gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.

Man

N man, male, he, him, manhood, gentleman, sir, master, sahib, yeoman, wight, swain, fellow, blade, beau, elf, chap, gaffer, good man, husband, Mr, mister, boy, cock, drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion, gibcat, tomcat, he goat, Billy goat, ram, tup, bull, bullock, capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot, androgen, homosexual, gay, queen, male, he-, masculine, manly, virile, unwomanly, unfeminine, Pron, he, him, his, hominem pagina nostra sapit, homo homini aut deus aut lupus, homo vitae commodatus non donatus est.

Blackness

N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.

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