Brush
An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
The bushy tail of a fox.
A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.
The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.
A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.
A short contest, or trial, of speed.
To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.
To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.
To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.
To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.
In Australia, a dense growth of vegetation in good soil, including shrubs and trees, mostly small.
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Brush Quotations
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
Samuel Adams
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
William Hazlitt
But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.
Denise Richards
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock
A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.
Timothy Murphy
I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.
Don Bluth
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
Berthe Morisot
I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?'
Robert Pattinson
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
Donald Judd
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
Whittaker Chambers
You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.
Lawrence Kasdan
I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.
Lee Scott
I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.
John Dyer
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.
Joseph Wambaugh
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Janine Turner
In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport.
Lisa Snowdon
That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off.
Julia Ormond
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
Norman McLaren
It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.
Richard Pound
Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.
John Gibbon
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
Mort Walker
I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.
Samantha Fox
I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.
Graham Hill
I will preach with my brush.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.
Susan Boyle
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
Theodore Gericault
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Brush Translations
brush in Afrikaans is borsel
brush in Dutch is borstelen, schuieren
brush in Finnish is harja
brush in French is brosse, brossent, brosser, brossons, brossez
brush in Italian is pennello, spazzola
brush in Latin is peniculus
brush in Portuguese is escova
brush in Spanish is brocha, cepillo, pincel, cepillar
brush in Swedish is borste, borsta, pensel
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