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Bush (b

sh), Barbara Born 1925.

First Lady of the United States (1989-1993) as the wife of President George Bush. She has been active in promoting literacy.

Barbara Bush

Bush, George Herbert Walker Born 1924.

The 41st President of the United States (1989-1993). He was previously U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1971-1972) and China (1974-1975), director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1976-1977), and Vice President (1981-1989) under Ronald Reagan.

George Bush

Bush, George Walker Born 1946.

The 43th President of the United States (since 2001). He previously served as governor of Texas (1994-2000).

Bush, Laura Born 1946.

First Lady of the of the United States (since 2001) as the wife of President George W. Bush.

Bush, Vannevar 1890-1974.

American electrical engineer and physicist who designed (1928) the differential analyzer, an early computer, and directed the World War II effort to develop the first atomic bomb.

bush¹ (b

sh)

1. A low shrub with many branches.

2. A thick growth of shrubs; a thicket.

a. Land covered with dense vegetation or undergrowth.

b. Land remote from settlement: the Australian bush.

a. A shaggy mass, as of hair.

b. Vulgar Slang A growth of pubic hair.

5. A fox's tail.

a. Archaic A clump of ivy hung outside a tavern to indicate the availability of wine inside.

b. Obsolete A tavern.

v. bushed, bush·ing, bushes

v.intr.

1. To grow or branch out like a bush.

2. To extend in a bushy growth.

v.tr.

To decorate, protect, or support with bushes.

adj.

Slang Bush-league; second-rate: "Reviewers here have tended to see in him a kind of bush D.H. Lawrence" Saturday Review.

[Middle English, partly from Old English busc, partly from Old French bois, wood (of Germanic origin) and partly of Scandinavian origin (akin to Danish busk). N., sense 3, possibly from Dutch bosch.]

bush² (b

sh)

tr.v. bushed, bush·ing, bush·es

To furnish or line with a bushing.

[From bush, bushing, possibly alteration of Dutch bus, box.]

bush ¹

Noun

1. a dense woody plant, smaller than a tree, with many branches; shrub

2. a dense cluster of such shrubs; thicket

3. something resembling a bush, esp. in density: a bush of hair

4. the bush an uncultivated area covered with trees or shrubs in Australia, Africa, New Zealand, and Canada

5. Canad an area on a farm on which timber is grown and cut

6. beat about the bush to avoid the point at issue [Germanic]

bush ²

Noun

a thin metal sleeve or tubular lining serving as a bearing

Verb

to fit a bush to (a casing or bearing) [Middle Dutch busse box]

Bush Examples: bush of broom, 1670; of ivy (used as inn sign); of ostrich feathers, 1530; of spears, 1513; of thorns; of wood, 1639.

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Noun	1.	bush - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems shrub shrubbery - a collection of shrubs growing together Catha edulis - a shrub that is cultivated by Arabs for its leaves which are chewed or used to make tea ephedra, joint fir - jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds alpine totara, Podocarpus nivalis - low wide-spreading coniferous shrub of New Zealand mountains Chilean rimu, Lepidothamnus fonkii - about the hardiest Podocarpaceae species; prostrate spreading shrub similar to mountain rimu; mountains of southern Chile Dacridium laxifolius, Lepidothamnus laxifolius, mountain rimu - low-growing to prostrate shrub with slender trailing branches; New Zealand Microstrobos niphophilus, Tasman dwarf pine - small shrub or Tasmania having short stiff branches barberry - any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root, squawroot - tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally holly-leaves barberry, hollygrape, Mahonia aquifolium, mountain grape, Oregon holly grape, Oregon grape - ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries Mahonia nervosa, Oregon grape - small shrub with grey-green leaves and yellow flowers followed by glaucous blue berries allspice - deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States Chimonanthus praecox, Japan allspice, Japanese allspice, winter sweet - deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum, Lindera benzoin, spice bush, spicebush - deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries pepper shrub, Pseudowintera colorata, Wintera colorata - evergreen shrub or small tree whose foliage is conspicuously blotched with red and yellow and having small black fruits Myrica gale, Scotch gale, sweet gale - bog shrub of north temperate zone having bitter-tasting fragrant leaves wax myrtle - any shrub or small tree of the genus Myrica with aromatic foliage and small wax-coated berries Comptonia asplenifolia, Comptonia peregrina, sweet fern - deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers corkwood, corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana - very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood mimosa - any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves Anadenanthera colubrina, Piptadenia macrocarpa - Brazilian shrub having twice-pinnate leaves and small spicate flowers followed by flat or irregularly torulose pods; sometimes placed in genus Piptadenia calliandra - any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers Lysiloma sabicu, sabicu - West Indian tree yielding a hard dark brown wood resembling mahogany in texture and value black bead, cat's-claw, catclaw, Pithecellodium unguis-cati - erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida mesquit, mesquite - any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar Acocanthera oblongifolia, Acocanthera spectabilis, poison arrow plant, winter sweet - medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits
	2.	bush - a large wilderness area outback - the bush country of the interior of Australia wild, wilderness - a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"
	3.	bush - dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes chaparral, scrub botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
	4.	Bush - 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946) Dubya, Dubyuh, George Bush, George W. Bush, George Walker Bush, President Bush, President George W. Bush
	5.	Bush - United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974) Vannevar Bush
	6.	Bush - vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924) George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, President Bush, George Bush
	7.	bush - hair growing in the pubic area crotch hair, pubic hair adult body - the body of an adult human being hair - a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells" minge - vulgar term for a woman's pubic hair or genitals
Verb	1.	bush - provide with a bushing furnish, provide, supply, render - give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
Adj.	1.	bush - not of the highest quality or sophistication bush-league inferior - of low or inferior quality