Brush
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Brush (1 Occurrence)
... Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush,
paint brush, tooth brush, etc. 2. (n.) The bushy tail of a fox. ...
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Brush-wood (1 Occurrence)
Brush-wood. Brushwood, Brush-wood. Brutal . Multi-Version Concordance
Brush-wood (1 Occurrence). Isaiah 64:2 as when ...
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Sweep (34 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.;
to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to ...
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Brushwood (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and
shrubs. 2. (n.) Small branches of trees cut off. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Brushing (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brush. 2. (a.) Constructed or used to brush with; as a
brushing machine. 3. (a.) Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop. ...
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Writing (194 Occurrences)
... The commonest instruments of ancient writing were the pen, brush and style. ... The existing
ostraca from Ahab's palace are, however, done with the brush. ...
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Owls (7 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 14:23 And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water:
and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of ...
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Lick (8 Occurrences)
... and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something
which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. ...
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Lure (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage
or pleasure; a decoy. 3. (n.) A velvet smoothing brush. ...
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Gourd (4 Occurrences)
... of the Tigris and on the plain between the river and the ruins of Nineveh." At the
present day it is trained to run over structures of mud and brush to form ...
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Bible Concordance
Brush (1 Occurrence)

Isaiah 14:23 And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.
(BBE)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

2. (n.) The bushy tail of a fox.

3. (n.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

4. (n.) Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.

5. (n.) A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

6. (n.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

7. (n.) The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.

8. (n.) A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.

9. (n.) A short contest, or trial, of speed.

10. (n.) To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.

11. (n.) To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.

12. (n.) To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.

13. (v. i.) To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

Greek
660. apotinasso -- to shake off
... shake off. From apo and tinasso (to jostle); to brush off -- shake off. see GREEK
apo. (apotinaxas) -- 1 Occurrence. (apotinassete) -- 1 Occurrence. 659, 660 ...
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4563. saroo -- to sweep
... sweep. From a derivative of sairo (to brush off; akin to suro); meaning a broom;
to sweep -- sweep. see GREEK suro. (saroi) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
3261. yaah -- to sweep together
... root Definition to sweep together NASB Word Usage sweep away (1). sweep away. A
primitive root; apparently to brush aside -- sweep away. 3260, 3261. ...
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Library

Diamond Became a Great Favourite with all the Men About the Mews. ...
... change their minds about him. One day Jack gave him a curry-comb and a brush
to try his hand upon old Diamond's coat. He used them so ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 17 diamond became a.htm

The New Commandment
... If an artist's canvas could but think and speak, surely it would never complain
of being touched and re-touched by the brush, nor would it feel envious thereof ...
/.../martin/the story of a soul/chapter x the new commandment.htm

the New Commandment
... If an artist's canvas could but think and speak, surely it would never complain
of being touched and re-touched by the brush, nor would it feel envious thereof ...
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Christ's Prayer Answered.
... them. It used to be a pastime of the boys in eastern Ohio to pile great
heaps of brush upon huge stumps in newly-cleared land. All ...
/.../rees/the heart-cry of jesus/chapter iv christs prayer answered.htm

Events During the War
... They heard men in the brush near the place where the dog was lying, and being very
young and not realizing their danger, they talked rather loudly and ...
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Free Grace
... You may brush down one web, but it soon forms another, you may take the thread from
one place, and you will find it clinging to your finger, and when you seek ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/free grace.htm

A Little Sermon to School-Girls.
... knocked at the room of her neighbor, a young lady who had been brought up amid all
the refinements of life, and asked her if she would lend her her hair-brush. ...
/.../a little sermon to school-girls.htm

When Diamond Got Round the Corner of the Hay...
... Now, from the neglect of the new housemaid, the fire in Miss Coleman's bedroom had
gone out, and her mother had told her to brush her hair by the drawing-room ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 2 when diamond got.htm

Low Beetling Brows, -- a Sensual, Cruel Mouth with a Loosely ...
... living,"and above all the perfectly self-satisfied and mock-pious air of the
man,"these points were given with the firm touch of a master's brush, and the ...
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While the Foregoing Scene was Taking Place at the Vatican...
... her exquisite seductiveness"combined with her touching weakness"these qualities
make of woman the one,"the only subject for a painter's brush, when the ...
/.../corelli/the master-christian/xxix while the foregoing scene.htm

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Brush

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