brush
 I. brush1 (brŭsh)n.
1.
a. A device consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, or painting.
b. The act of using this device.
2. A light touch in passing; a graze.
3. An instance of contact with something undesirable or dangerous:
a brush with the law; a brush with death.
4. A bushy tail:
the brush of a fox.
5. A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.
6. A snub; a brushoff.v. brushed, brush·ing, brush·esv. tr.
1.
a. To clean, polish, or groom with a brush.
b. To apply with or as if with motions of a brush.
c. To remove with or as if with motions of a brush.
2. To dismiss abruptly or curtly:
brushed the matter aside; brushed an old friend off.
3. To touch lightly in passing; graze against.v. intr.
1. To use or apply a brush.
2. To move past something so as to touch it lightly.Phrasal Verbs:brush back Baseball
To force (a batter) to move away from the plate by throwing an inside pitch.brush up
1. To refresh one's memory.
2. To renew a skill. [Middle English brusshe, from Old French brosse, brushwood, brush. See brush2.] brushʹer n.brushʹy adj.
Synonyms: brush1, flick1, glance1, graze2, shave, skim
These verbs mean to make light contact with something in passing: Her arm brushed mine. I flicked the paper with my finger. The arrow glanced off the tree. The knife blade grazed the countertop. A taxi shaved the curb. The oar skims the pond's surface. II. brush2 (brŭsh)n.
1.
a. A dense growth of bushes or shrubs.
b. Land covered by such a growth.
2. Cut or broken branches. [Middle English brusshe, from Old French brosse, brushwood, from Vulgar Latin *bruscia, perhaps from Latin bruscum, knot on a maple.] brushʹy adj.
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