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Bushwa
bush, n. 1. A shrub; esp., a thick, densely branched shrub or cluster of shrubs; also, a thorn. 2. a Obs. A thicket, grove, or clump of bushes, esp. one used as an ambush. b A stretch of uncultivated country, esp. of woodland or land covered with shrubby vegetation; as, to live or settle in the bush. Hence, the country, or rural districts as opposed to town or city; the "sticks." Also, specif.: Australia. The vast area or areas of arid scrub-covered country distinctive of certain interior districts. 3. a A shrub or branch prop., a branch of ivy (perhaps as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign. b A tavern sign or, Obs., the tavern itself. 4. A bushlike mass, as of hair, foliage, or feathers.
bush, v. i. To butt.
bush baby. Any of several small African lemurs of the genus Galago.
bush bean. A dwarf variety of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
bushbeater, n. A bushwhacker.
bush cinquefoil. A much-branched shrub (Dasiphora fruticosa) with compound leaves and yellow flowers, common through the North Temperate Zone, often as a weed.
bush disease. Veter. = CREEPS. New Zealand.
busher, n. Logging. A swamper.
busher, n. Baseball. A bush leaguer; -- used contemptuously.
bushfighting, n. Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
bush goat. A bushbuck.
bushhammer, v.t., To dress with a bushhammer.
bush hook. A brush hook; a bill.
bushland, n. The bush. See 1st BUSH.
bush lawyer. See NEW ZEALAND BRAMBLE: A leafless prickly bramble . . . . It forms impenetrable thickets, and is also called wait-a-bit.
bushman's poison = ORDEAL TREE (Acocanthera venenata); a poisonous shrub.
bush marrow. A variety of squash with a bushy habit.
bushmaster, n. A snake (Lachesis mutus) . . . , the largest venemous species in the New World. It reaches a length of twelve feet and has more venom than any other pit viper, 350 milligrams having been extracted at one time from a single snake. It is the only member of the Crotalidae known to produce, not living young, but eggs, laid in the burrows of other creatures.
bushment, n. 1. An ambuscade. 2. A bushy mass.
Bush Negro. = BOSCHNEGER: A Negro living in the unsettled wilds and leading the primitive life of the Indians in the region.
bush pig. The BOSCHVARK: a wild hog.
bush poppy: A Californian shrub.
bush pumpkin: A variety of pumpkin in which the plant remains compact and does not become a vine.
bushranger, n. A highwayman.
bush rat = WOOD RAT.
bushrope, n. = LIANA.
bush scythe. A scythe having a short, thick, heavy blade, for cutting bushes.
bush sickness = BUSH DISEASE.
bush soul. Anthropol. Among some primitive peoples, that one of a man's several souls which inhabits some animal wild in the bush.
bush swamp. Ecology. A plant association, found in wet places, dominated by shrubs or low trees. It is common in the southeastern United States.
bush tit. Any small bird of the genus Psaltriparus, allied to the titmouse. There is a single species in North America, the grayish-brown P. minimus of the Pacific coast from British Columbia to Lower California, and several races, including the lead-colored bush tit, (P. m. plumbeus) of the arid interior from Wyoming to western Texas, and the black-eared bush tit (P. m. melanotis) of Guatemala and Mexico, represented in the southwestern United States by Lloyd's bush tit (P. m. Lloydii).
bush vetch. A European purple-flowered vetch with slender stems, occurring as a weed in hedgerows.
bushwa, n. Bodewash; esp., Low Slang, bosh; trash.
bushwhack, v.i. & t. To act, esp. to attack or fight, as a bushwhacker does. U.S.
-- From Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, unabridged, with Reference History, 1936
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