1. (n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

2. (n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

3. (n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

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

5. (n.) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

6. (v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

7. (v. t.) To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

8. (v. t.) To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

9. (n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

10. (n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the vent hole is bored.

11. (v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

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