Brush

brush, n. an instrument for removing dust, usually made of bristles, twigs, or feathers a kind of hair-pencil used by painters brushwood a skirmish or encounter: the tail of a fox. v to remove dust, . from by sweeping to touch lightly in pa ing (with off) remove. v to move over lightly. [Fr. bro e, a brush, brushwood — O. Ger. brust a (Ger. bUrste acc. to Braehe orig. heather, broom. See Browse Brushwood, brush 'wood, n. rough, close bushes a thicket Brusque, broosk, adj blunt, abrupt in manner, rude.—«. Brusque ne . [Fr. brusque, rude. See Brisk.]