Word Meanings - DUSTBRUSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

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• BRUSHWOOD
  1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.
• BRUSHITE
  A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
• BRUSHER
  One who, or that which, brushes.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• BRUSH TURKEY
  A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. Note: The brush turkeys live in the "brush," and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• BRUSHING
  1. Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine. 2. Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• BRUSHY
  Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
• FURNITURE
  A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture. (more info) 1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment. The form and all the furniture of the earth. Tillotson. The thoughts which make the
• REMOVABLE
  Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. -- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-, n.
• BRUSHINESS
  The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.
• BRUSH WHEEL
  1. A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference. 2. A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.
• REMOVAL
  The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
• BRUSH
  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. (more info) F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta,
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• HAIRBRUSH
  A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.
• SAGEBRUSH
  A low irregular shrub , of the order Compositæ, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.
• UNDERBRUSH
  Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.
• DUSTBRUSH
  A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.
• KNEEBRUSH
  A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• IRREMOVABILITY
  The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness.
• AIR BRUSH
  A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air.