A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair. We gave him paint and brushes Stains are removed with buckets of soapy water and scrubbing brushes. a hair brush
Brush is an area of rough open land covered with small bushes and trees. You also use brush to refer to the bushes and trees on this land. the brush fire that destroyed nearly 500 acres. a meadow of low brush and grass. = bush see also broad-brush, nail brush
If you brush something with a liquid, you apply a layer of that liquid using a brush. Take a sheet of filo pastry and brush it with melted butter
remove with or as if with a brush; "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections"
A small rectangular piece of conductive metal that makes contact with the commutator inside an electric motor
If one thing brushes against another or if you brush one thing against another, the first thing touches the second thing lightly while passing it. Something brushed against her leg I felt her dark brown hair brushing the back of my shoulder She knelt and brushed her lips softly across Michael's cheek
To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc
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