Bush

boosh, n. a shrub thick with branches: anything of bushy tuft-like shape: any wild uncultivated country, esp. at the Cape or in Australia: a bunch of ivy hung up as a tavern sign, a tavern itself—'Good wine needs no bush.'— v.i. to grow thick or bushy.— v.t. to set bushes about, support with bushes: to cover seeds by means of the bush-harrow.— n. Bush′-cat , the serval.— adj. Bushed , lost in the bush.— ns. Bush′-harr′ow , a light kind of harrow used for covering gra -seeds, formed of a barred frame interwoven with bushes or branches; Bush′ine ; Bush′man , a settler in the uncleared land of America or the Colonies, a woodsman: one of a native race in South Africa (Dut. boschjesman ); Bush′-rang′er , in Australia, a lawle fellow, often an escaped criminal, who takes to the bush and lives by robbery; Bush′-shrike , a tropical American ant-thrush; Bush′tit , a small long-tailed titmouse of West America, building a large hanging-nest.— v.i. Bush′-whack , to range through the bush: to fight in guerilla warfare.— ns . Bush′-whack′er , a guerilla fighter: a country lout: a short heavy scythe for cutting bushes; Bush′-whack′ing , the habits or practice of bush-whackers: the proce of forcing a way for a boat by pulling at the bushes overhanging a stream.— adj. Bush′y , full of bushes: thick and spreading.— Beat about the bush , to go round about anything, to evade coming to the point. [M. E. busk , busch ; from a Teut. root found in Ger. busch , Low L. boscus , Fr. bois .]