Usually means: Tool for applying, grooming, cleaning.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word brush:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. brush: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. brush, brush: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brush, brush: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brush: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brush: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brush, brush: Wordnik
  7. brush: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Brush: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Brush, brush: Wiktionary
  10. brush: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. brush: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. brush: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Brush, brush: Dictionary.com
  14. brush (1), brush (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. brush: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Brush (disambiguation), Brush (electric), Brush (music), Brush (surname), Brush (video game), Brush: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Brush: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. brush: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. brush: Rhymezone
  20. brush: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. brush: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. BRUSH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Brush: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  24. Brush: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. brush: Free Dictionary
  26. brush: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. Brush, brush: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  28. brush: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. brush: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. brush: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technopedia (No longer online)
  2. Brush (electric), brush: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. brush: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. brush: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. brush, brush, brush, brush, brush, brush, brush, brush: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Brush: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brush: Dan's Poker
  2. Brush: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  The act of brushing something.
noun:  A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
noun:  A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
noun:  (uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
noun:  A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
noun:  The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
noun:  (zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
noun:  (archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
noun:  (music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
noun:  (computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
noun:  (computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
noun:  (video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
noun:  (poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
noun:  (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
verb:  (transitive) To clean with a brush.
verb:  (transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
verb:  (transitive) To apply with a brush.
verb:  (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
verb:  (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
noun:  A surname.

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