English English Dictionary

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.

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.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

See Bushman.

of Bush

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.

A large indefinite quantity.

The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.

A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.

A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler.

A small bush.

One accustomed to bushfighting.

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

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

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.

The condition or quality of being bushy.

A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.