A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
The act of brushing something.
Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
To clean with a brush.
To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
To untangle or arrange with a brush.
To apply with a brush.
To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
To remove with a sweeping motion.
An awkward set of circumstances.
A shave.
A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].
To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
To barely manage to achieve.
To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.