a thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.-a shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.-a shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.-a shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.-the tail, or brush, of a fox.-to branch thickly in the manner of a bush.-to set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.-to use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.-a lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.-a piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.-to furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.