| • | A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild
   forest. | 
											
															| • | A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the
   root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs. | 
											
															| • | A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes
   to support pea vines. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | The tail, or brush, of a fox. | 
											
															| • | To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. | 
											
															| • | To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush
   peas. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the
   venthole is bored. | 
											
															| • | To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot
   hole. |