bush

A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

bushes to support pea vines

A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue.

"Well," replied Lady Mary, "who is to know where good wine is sold, unless you hang out the bush."

A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.

As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth’d gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar’s wallet for its’ proviſion.

I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue.

The tail, or brush, of a fox.

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.

To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

to bush peas

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground

To become bushy (often used with up).

I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.

A tavern or wine merchant.