Brusher to Buccaneerish
Brusher
(Brush"er) n. One who, or that which, brushes.
Brushiness
(Brush"i*ness) n. The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H.
More.
Brushing
(Brush"ing), a.
1. Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.
2. Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.
Brushite
(Brush"ite) n. [From George J. Brush, an American mineralogist.] (Min.) A white or gray
crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
Brush turkey
(Brush" tur`key) (Zoöl.) A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of
the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.
The brush turkeys live in the "brush," and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying
vegetable matter, which generates heat sufficient to hatch the numerous eggs (sometimes half a bushel)
deposited in it by the females of the flock.
Brush wheel
(Brush" wheel`)
1. A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or
soft attached to the circumference.
2. A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.
Brushwood
(Brush"wood) n.
1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
2. Small branches of trees cut off.
Brushy
(Brush"y), a. Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
Brusk
(Brusk) a. Same as Brusque.
Brusque
(Brusque) a. [F. brusque, from It. brusco brusque, tart, sour, perh. fr. L. (vitis) labrusca wild
(vine); or cf. OHG. bruttisc grim, fr. brutti terror.] Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a
brusque man; a brusque style.
Brusqueness
(Brusque"ness), n. Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.
Brit. Quar.
Brussels
(Brus"sels) n. A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.
Brussels carpet, a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread.
The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern. — Brussels
ground, a name given to the handmade ground of real Brussels lace. It is very costly because of the
extreme fineness of the threads. — Brussels lace, an expensive kind of lace of several varieties,
originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground. — Brussels
net, an imitation of Brussels ground, made by machinery. — Brussels point. See Point lace. —
Brussels sprouts (Bot.), a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright
stem, numerous small green heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in
