1. • noun - a dense growth of bushes
   • noun - an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
   • noun - momentary contact
   • noun - conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
   • noun - a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
   • noun - a minor short-term fight
   • noun - the act of brushing your teeth
   • noun - the act of brushing your hair
   • noun - contact with something dangerous or undesirable
   • verb - rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
   • verb - touch lightly and briefly
   • verb - clean with a brush
   • verb - sweep across or over
   • verb - remove with or as if with a brush
   • verb - cover by brushing
2. • A device consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, or painting.
   • The act of using this device.
   • A light touch in passing; a graze.
   • A bushy tail: the brush of a fox.
   • A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.
   • A snub; a brushoff.
   • To clean, polish, or groom with a brush.
   • To apply with or as if with motions of a brush.
   • To remove with or as if with motions of a brush.
   • To dismiss abruptly or curtly: brushed the matter aside; brushed an old friend off.
   • To touch lightly in passing; graze against.
   • To use or apply a brush.
   • To move past something so as to touch it lightly.
   • To refresh one’s memory.
   • The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to make light and momentary contact with something in passing”: her arm brushing mine; flicked the paper with his finger; an arrow that glanced off the tree; a knife blade grazing the countertop; a taxi that shaved the curb; an oar skimming the surface of the pond.
   • A dense growth of bushes or shrubs.
   • Land covered by such a growth.
   • Cut or broken branches.
3. • v - to touch lightly

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