Bush(n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
Bush(n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
Bush(n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
Bush(n.) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
Bush(n.) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
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.
Bush(n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
Bush(v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
Bush(v. t.) To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
Bush(v. t.) To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.
Bush(v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
Bushed(imp. & p. p.) of Bush
Bushing(n.) The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.
Bushing(n.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.
Bushing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bush

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