Definition of bush

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Bush (n.) 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.

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Hedge :: Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden..
Ambushment :: Ambushment (v. t.) An ambush.
Press :: Press (n.) An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black..
Busket :: Busket (n.) A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet..
Spicebush :: Spicebush (n.) Spicewood.
Phalangist :: Phalangist (n.) Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist (P. vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail..
Zamouse :: Zamouse (n.) A West African buffalo (Bubalus brachyceros) having short horns depressed at the base, and large ears fringed internally with three rows of long hairs. It is destitute of a dewlap. Called also short-horned buffalo, and bush cow..
Insidiate :: Insidiate (v. t.) To lie in ambush for.
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Assart :: Assart (n.) A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing..
Kafir :: Kafir (n.) One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs..
Flower-fence :: Flower-fence (n.) A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies..
Strike :: Strike (n.) An old measure of four bushels.
Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game..
Perdu :: Perdu (a.) One placed on watch, or in ambush..
Bushment :: Bushment (n.) A thicket; a cluster of bushes.
Shock :: Shock (n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair..
Caper :: Caper (n.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree..
Trug :: Trug (n.) An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
Bushed :: Bushed (imp. & p. p.) of Bus.
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