Meaning of bush out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To be bushy; to protrude in a thick tuft.
   intransitive
2. To become bushy; to grow into the form of a thick tuft.
   intransitive
3. To cause (something) to protrude in a thick tuft.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“[The Grizzly] has a heavy head, a rather wolflike face⟳, with full cheek tufts of fur bushing out well up to the ears,”

“Round the broken top of the tower the ivy bushed out, old and handsome.”

“[…] his thick, iron-gray hair was brushed straight back from his forehead. It was so long that it bushed out behind his ears […]”

“Removing the shoots on the side of the plant⟳ will encourage⟳ it to grow⟳ upward instead of bushing out.”

“[The walls] were all couered ouer with a crusting of Pearle, close⟳ ioyned and set⟳ together: and towardes the toppe, there sprouted out greene yuie, the leaues thickning and bushing out from the Pearles,”

“[…] the Dog becomes more beautifull by cutting the toppe of his sterne: for then will it bush out very gallantly,”

“1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 4, “Voyages To and About the Southerne America,” Chapter 13, p. 1481, [They] deformed their children with laying one boord on the fore-head, and another in the necke […] to make⟳ them broad-faced, shauing away the haire of the crowne and necke, and letting it growe on the sides, making it curle and bush out to more monstrositie.”

“The Stalking-Hedge should be two or three Yards long, and about a Yard and an half high, and made in small Wands, and bushed out in the manner of a true Hedge, with certain Supports or Stakes, to bear⟳ it up from falling whilst you take⟳ your aim to Shoot⟳. And this is to be carried before you for your Shelter⟳ from the Fowl.”

“1763, George Colman, Terrae-Filius, Number⟳ 3, 7 July, 1763, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, p. 249, Mr. FOLIO […] waited in his gold laced hat with a handkerchief of Mrs. FOLIO’s about his ears, till the return⟳ of his wig, properly bushed out and powdered,”

“[…] he furiously bushed out and clipped cross-wise sections of beard and slapped them on his chin gleaming brown with spirit gum.”

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