brush

An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.

The act of brushing something.

She gave her hair a quick brush.

as leaves Do on the oak, have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughs

A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.

A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.

If there was a sharp point nearby, electricity would stream from it in a luminous brush, a little corposant, and one could blow out candles with the outstreaming “electric wind,” or even get this to turn a little rotor on its pivot.

Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.

We broke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.

One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

To clean with a brush.

Brush your teeth.

To untangle or arrange with a brush.

Brush your hair.

To apply with a brush.

I am brushing the paint onto the walls.

To remove with a sweeping motion.

She brushed the flour off my clothes.

Caliban: As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd / With raven's feather from unwholesome fen / Drop on you both![…]

To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.

Her scarf brushed his skin.

Some spread their sails, some with strong oars sweep / The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave.

A surname.