| brush | 1. 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 colours, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc. 2. The bushy tail of a fox. 3. <zoology> A tuft of hair on the mandibles. 4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood. 5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush. 6. <physics> A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus. 7. The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed. "[As leaves] have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughts." (Shak) 8. A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy. "Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war." (Shak) 9. A short contest, or trial, of speed. "Let us enjoy a brush across the country." (Cornhill Mag) Electrical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterised by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body. Origin: OE. Brusche, OF. Broche, broce, brosse, brushwood, F. Brosse brush, LL. Brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. Brusta, brust, bristle, G. Borste bristle, burste brush. See Bristle, and cf. Browse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| brush biopsy | Biopsy obtained by passing a bristled catheter into the ureter or pyelocalyceal system to remove cells from suspected areas of disease by entrapping them in the bristles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brush border | <pathology> The densely packed microvilli on the apical surface of, for example: intestinal epithelial cells. (18 Nov 1997) |
| brush burn | A burn caused by friction of a rapidly moving object against the skin or ground into the skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brush catheter | A ureteral catheter with a finely bristled brush tip that is endoscopically passed into the ureter or renal pelvis and by gentle to-and-fro movement brushes cells from the surface of suspected tumours. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brush habitat | <ecology> Includes a wide variety of plant and animal life dominated by and associated with coastal scrub and chaparral. (09 Oct 1997) |
| brush heap structure | Haphazard interlocking of fibrils in a gel or hydrocolloid impression material. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brush layering | <ecology> Placing horizontal layers of tree branches or twigs in a gully or along a slope and then partially covering the branches with soil, the branches act to hold the soil in place and to absorb momentum from water flowing over the area. (09 Oct 1997) |
| brush turkey | <zoology> A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Brushfield, Thomas | <person> British physician, 1858-1937. See: Brushfield's spots, Brushfield-Wyatt disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brushfield-Wyatt disease | A familial disorder characterised by unilateral nevus, contralateral hemiplegia, hemianopia, cerebral angioma, and mental retardation; possibly a variant of Sturge-Weber syndrome. Synonym: nevoid amentia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brushing | And (12 Dec 1998) |
| brushite | <chemical> A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium. Origin: From George J.Brush, an American mineralogist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brushwood | 1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brussels | 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. <botany> Brussels sprouts, 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 diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage. Brussels wire ground, a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brushing |
Interference between paired hooves.
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| bruxism |
Clenching and grinding the teeth
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a device made of stiff hairs, such as nylon or animal hair, fastened into a handle, for grooming, painting, scrubbing, and the like.
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Compulsive grinding or clenching of the teeth, especially at night.
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(component) A conductor, usually composed in part of some form of the element carbon, serving to maintain an electrical connection between stationary and moving parts of a motor or apparatus.
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| BRU | German conductor (1876-1962) |
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| BRU | a city in central Germany |
| BRU | a town in southeast Georgia near the Atlantic coast |
| BRU | a university town in southwestern Maine |
| BRU | spicy Southern specialty: chicken (or small game) with corn and tomatoes and lima beans and okra and onions and potatoes |
| BRU | main force of a blow etc |
| BRU | a city in northwestern Turkey |
| BRU | contact with something dangerous or undesirable |
| BRU | the act of brushing your hair |
| BRU | the act of brushing your teeth |
| BRU | a minor short-term fight |
| BRU | an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle |