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单词 bushe
释义 I. bush, n.1|bʊʃ|
Forms: 3–7 busk, 4–7 buske; 4 bos(s)ch(e, bossh(e, buss(e, (also bousch(e, boysch, buysch(e), 4–5 busch(e, bussch(e, 4–6 bussh(e, 5 boshe, 6 bushe, buszhe, 5– bush; Sc. 6– bus, buss.
[ME. busk, a. ON. busk-r (Da. busk, Sw. buske), cogn. w. OHG. bush (MHG. busch, bosch, Ger. busch), MDu. busc, bosc (Du. bosch, bos), all ad. Rom. bosco or late L. boscum, boscus wood, of which the ulterior source is unknown. Cf. boscage, bosk. The form busk is still found in northern dial., but in Sc. is reduced to bus, buss; the buss of the Ayenbite was only Dan Michel's way of spelling bush with ss for sh.]
1. a. A shrub, particularly one with close branches arising from or near the ground; a small clump of shrubs apparently forming one plant.
(α) Form busk. Obs. exc. dial.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 2779 Vt of ðat busk..God sente an steuene.1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 136 Briddes..þat in buskes [1393 C. xiv. 156 bosshes, bussches, busches] made nestes.c1440Promp. Parv. 56 Buske or busshe, rubus, dumus.1549Compl. Scot. 37 Birdis hoppand fra busk to tuist.1601R. Yarington Two Lament. Traj. iii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Thickets full of buskes.1670Ray. Eng. Prov. (1678) 54 Lads' love's a busk of broom.1863Ld. Lytton Ring Amasis II. 211 The old straight carriage-drives..now wind in and out among the busks and thickets.1855Whitby Gloss., Busks, bushes.
(β) Form bush.
c1315Shoreham 131 Thou art the bosche of Synay.1340Ayenb. 28 Ne in gerse, ne in busse, ne in trauwe.1382Wyclif Luke vi. 44 A boysch [1388 buysche] of breris.1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxl. (1495) 696 A busshe hyghte Rubus.c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 87 As plummes boshes are.1543Act 35 Hen. VIII, xvii. §4 Over-grown with Bushes or Under-wood.1667Milton P.L. iv. 176 The undergrowth Of shrubs and tangling bushes.1864Tennyson Grandmother 40 In the bush beside me chirrupt the nightingale.
(γ) Form bus (Sc.).
1528Lyndesay Dreme 62 And flemit Flora frome euery bank and bus.1768Ross Helenore 26 (Jam.) Upon the busses birdies sweetly sung.1813Picken Poems 163 (Jam.) I like our hills an' heathery braes, Ilk burdie, buss, an' burnie.Sc. Proverbs, Better a wee buss than nae beild. Ye maun bow to the buss ye get bield frae.
b. Phr. to beat the bush: (lit.) in bat-fowling, to rouse the birds that they may fly into the net held by some one else; (fig.) to expend labour of which the fruit is not gained by oneself. (Cf. beat v. 26.) to beat (formerly also go, wend, seek) about the bush: to go indirectly and tentatively towards an object, to avoid coming to the point. Cf. beat v. 26 C.)
c1440Generydes 4524 Some bete the bussh and some the byrdes take.1520Whittinton Vulg. (1527) 1 A longe betynge aboute the busshe and losse of tyme to a yonge begynner.1553T. Wilson Rhet. 1 b, If he utter his mind in plain wordes: and tell it orderly, without goynge about the bushe.1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 12 That we shuld not seke about the bush for an vncertaine Godhead.1658–9in Burton Diary (1828) III. 528 We have beaten the bush, and not come plainly to the point.1705Vanbrugh Confeder. iii. ii, I went round the bush, and round the bush, before I came to the matter.1819Blackw. Mag. IV. 621 He never goes about the bush for a phrase.1822Hazlitt Table-t. II. ix. 212 He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1871) II. i. iii. 18 Benighted fowls, when you beat their bushes, rush towards any light.
c. Proverbs.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 123 Thus hath every gap his bush, each suspition his prevention.1600Holland Livy xxiii. iii. 474 Therefore with one bush (as they say) ye are to stop two gaps, and to do both at once.1638Sanderson Serm. II. 97 This common usage of the phrase, as it well preserveth the sence, so doth it also (that I may stop two gaps with one bush) justifie the truth of this charge in my text.c1689Popish Pol. Unmaskt 84 in 3rd Coll. Poems (1689) 23/2 With them one Bird in Hand's worth two i' th' Bush.1875Jevons Money (1878) 247 The..chance of receiving gold which is still like the bird in the bush.
2. In northern dialects extended to sub-shrubs as heather, or herbaceous plants growing in a clump, as nettles, ferns, rushes.
1529Lyndesay Complaynt 408 Ihone Vpeland bene full blyith, I trow, Because the rysche bus kepis his kow.1570Trag. in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 232 Than mycht the Rasche bus keip ky on the bordour.1570–87Holinshed Scot. Chron. (1806) II. 96 Caused the rash bush to keep the cow.1818Scott Rob Roy xxv, The oppressors that hae driven me to tak the heather-bush for a bield.
3. collectively. A clump of shrubs, a thicket; bushy ground. (Cf. bosk 2.) Obs. exc. as reintroduced in sense 9.
1523Fitzherb. Surv. 2 b, Highe grounde and drie is moost conuenyent for shepe, wode grounde and busshe for beestes.1580North Plutarch (1676) 4 She had hidden herself in a grove..But Theseus finding her, called her..Upon which..she came out of the bush.a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. v. (1677) 261 The rest betook them to a little bush of wood, where being environed on all sides, they yielded.
4.
a. A clump of shrubs used as a place of concealment; = am-bush, q.v. So to take a bush, to thrust or run one's head in a bush. Obs.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 8432 In on busse thou the hide.1375Barbour Bruce vii. 71 [He] stud in-till a busk lurkand.c1380Sir Ferumb. 2887 Þan schullaþ our men of hem be⁓war? & breken out of þe bossche.c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 659 This Palamon Was in a bussh that no man myghte hym se.a1553Udall Royster D. i. iv. (Arb.) 28 As the beast passed by, he start out of a buske.1631J. Burges Answ. Rejoined 52 Hee againe takes a bush, and hides himselfe vnder the ambiguous terme of Religious Ceremonies.1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. (1669) 21/1 Instead of confessing their sins, they run their head in a bush, and by their good will would not come where God is.
b. beggar's-bush: see beggar 8.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. iii. 85 And wil you (being a man of your breeding), be married vnder a bush like a begger?
5. a. A branch or bunch of ivy (perhaps as the plant sacred to Bacchus) hung up as a vintner's sign; hence, the sign-board of a tavern.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. (1557) 642/1 Set vp for a bare signe, as a tauerners bush or tapsters ale stake.1591Florio 2nd Frutes 185 Womens beauty..is like vnto an Iuy bush, that cals men to the tauern, but hangs itselfe withoute to winde and wether.1612Dekker If not good Play Wks. 1873 III. 280 As a drawer in a new Tauern, first day the bush is hung vp.c1613Rowlands More Knaues Yet 36 At next bush and signe Calling for clarret.1644Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 97 Wicker bottles dangling over even the chief entrance..serving for a vintner's bush.1692in Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xxxi. 150 You may bind two of them across, like a Tavern-Bush.1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Bush, also denotes a coronated frame of wood hung out as a sign at taverns..antiently, signs where wine was sold were bushes.1788H. Walpole Remin. ix. 71 How should people know where wine is sold, unless a bush is hung out?
b. Hence, the tavern itself.
a1625Beaum. & Fl. (O.) Twenty to one you find him at the bush.1631Heywood Maid of West ii. v. Wks. 1874 II. 415 Then will I go home to the bush Where I drew wine.
c. Proverb. good wine needs no bush.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. Epil., If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue.1611Cotgr. s.v. Bon, Good wine draws customers without any help of an iuy-bush.1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 168 As good Wine needs no Bush, no more do good Medicines a printed Bill.1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 30 Good wine needs neither bush, herald, nor crier.1861W. Thornbury in Gd. Words 432 Faded boughs—the bush that good wine does not need—rustle over the door.
d. fig. as to hang out bushes.
1616Beaum. & Fl. Cust. Countr. iii. ii, Young women in the old world were not wont, Sir, To hang out gaudy bushes for their beauties.1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §2 In every one of them, some outward figures, which hang as signes or bushes of their inward formes.
e. fig. Boasting, bluster, ‘tall talk’. U.S. dial.
1837Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 450 You Maine folks have been talkin' a leetle too fast lately, a leetle too much bush.
6. transf.
a. Anything resembling a bush; a bushy mass of foliage, feathers, etc.; a bunch. Obs. or dial.
1513Douglas æneis vii. xii. 77 Amyd a bus of speris in rayd thai.1530Palsgr. 202/1 Busshe of oystrisshe fethers, plumart.1542Udall Erasm. Apophth. 296 a, The cypres tree..growyng sharpe with a bushe greate beneth and smal aboue of a trymme facion.1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. iii. (1632) 464 In the ninth of his Raigne a blazing Starre appeared with two bushes.1648Gage West Ind. xi. (1655) 40 They put on all their bravery..and bushes of feathers.
b. A signalling instrument used in Cornish pilchard fishing. local.
1880in M. A. Courtney W. Cornw. Gloss.1892Graphic 13 Aug. 194/1 The huers on land making signals to the boatmen with two instruments called ‘bushes’, which are hoops crossing each other, and covered with a white bag, and fastened to the end of short rods.
c. The cat-o'-nine-tails. slang.
1895Daily News 13 Sept. 7/6 They might give him twenty years, and he should not care, so long as they did not order him the bush.
7. a. esp. A bushy head of hair. (Very common in 16th c.: of hair is now expressed.)
1509Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 232 To hyre the bush of one that late is dead, Therewith to disguise his fooles doting head.1530Palsgr. 762 Trymme my busshe, barber.1609Bible (Douay) 2 Kings xiv. 26 Once a yeare he was powled, because his bush did burden him.1640Sanderson Serm. 147 A bush of hair will do it, where it groweth.1719D'Urfey Pills I. 57 He who wears a long bush, All powder'd down from his Pericrane.a1845Barham Ingold. Leg. Ser. iii. (1858) 508 A continued tuft of coarse, wiry hair..swelled out in a greyish-looking bush above the occiput.1880Chamb. Jrnl. 774 Their heads..covered with great bushes of wool.
b. occas. of a bushy beard, or eyebrows.
[c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 261 His browes war like litel buskes.]1647S. Sheppard 2d pt. Committee-Man. Curr. i. ii. 2 His chin has no bush, save a little downe.1859Tennyson Vivien 659 He dragg'd his eyebrow bushes down, and made A snowy penthouse for his hollow eyes.
c. (A bushy growth of) pubic hair. slang.
1922Joyce Ulysses 85 He..saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands.1959M. Richler Apprenticeship Duddy Kravitz i. ix. 50 Milty ran off crying... ‘What is it, pussy-lamb?’ ‘I'm never going to grow a bush, Mummy.’1968J. Updike Couples i. 9 Her throat, wrists, and triangular bush appeared the pivots for some undeniable effort of flight.1973A. Powell Temporary Kings ii. 72 He insisted on taking a cutting from my bush—said he always did that after having anyone for the first time.
8. A bushy tail, esp. of a fox; = brush n.2 3 b.
1575Turberv. Bk. Venerie 241 The tayle of a foxe is called his Bush.1577Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 113 It seemeth to be a dead Lion; for it hath a long tail with a bush at the end.1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xiv. (1660) 166 Termes of the Tayle, That of a Fox is termed his Bush.
9. a. (Recent, and probably a direct adoption of the Dutch bosch, in colonies originally Dutch.) Woodland, country more or less covered with natural wood: applied to the uncleared or untilled districts in the former British Colonies which are still in a state of nature, or largely so, even though not wooded; and by extension to the country as opposed to the towns. For U.S. examples see D.A., D.A.E.
1780[cf. bush-cat in 11].1826J. Atkinson Agric. & Grazing N.S.W. iv. 64 When any person finds himself overstocked..they go into the interior, or bush, as it is termed, beyond the occupied parts of the country.1828Scott Tapestr. Chamb., When I was in the Bush, as the Virginians call it.1836W. B. Marshall Two Visits N.Z. 152 They [sc. the interpreters] took to the bush for shelter by day.1837J. Lang N.S. Wales I. 253 His house was well enough for the bush, as the country is generally termed in the colony.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1871) II. v. iv. 187 The Black man loves the Bush.1851N. J. Merriman Jrnl. 21 Sept. in Kafir, Hottentot, & Frontier Farmer (1854) 121 His mother and sister had escaped into the bush for refuge.1857R. B. Paul Lett. fr. Canterbury iv. 65 A pleasant walk of three hours through the bush.1873Trollope Australia I. 299 Nearly every place beyond the influences of the big towns is called ‘bush’ even though there should be not a tree to be seen.1874Geikie Life Woods ii. 21 Every thing being much cheaper in Toronto than away in the bush.1886New Zealand Herald 1 June 2/4 There is a bush upon it of 63 acres.1888Castle Line Guide to S. Afr. 69 (Pettman), The soil..having been covered to a large extent by a thick forest of trees (usually termed bush).1953A. Paton Too Late the Phalarope vii. 52 The kloof was wooded, not with forest, but with what we in South Africa call the bush.1968K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 27 He's been in the bush so long he's started to look like a roo.
b. to take to the bush.
1837J. Lang N.S. Wales II. 15 Four of them immediately take to the bush, i.e. become bush-rangers, or run⁓away convicts, subsisting on plunder.
c. A clump of trees. N.Z. Obs.
1856T. Tancred in Edin. New Phil. Jrnl. III. 7 Over these tracts are scattered some small ‘bushes’, or woods.1857R. B. Paul Lett. fr. Canterbury vi. 94 You should try to have a bush on or near your section.1867M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) x. 62 Most stations have a bush near the homestead.
d. pl. = sense 9 a. U.S.
1879Tourgée Fool's Err. xxii. 130 That refuge of free thought at the South, the woods (or ‘the bushes’, as the scraggly growth is more generally termed).1912C. Mathewson Pitching x. 210 The youngsters, who have come from the bushes and realize that this is their..chance to make good.
e. to go bush, to go into the country; to leave the city; to disappear from one's usual surroundings. Also transf., to run wild, to go berserk. orig. and chiefly Austral.
1908A. Gunn We of Never-Never 8 She went bush with me when I'd nothing but a skeeto net and a quart-pot to share with her.1933Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Feb. 20 It is rare for this fellow [sc. a dog] to go bush, but it has been recorded.1934A. Russell Tramp-Royal x. 78 Milbuka had fled, ‘gone bush’ that morning, and could not be found.1946F. Davison Dusty xiv. 156 From the fact that separate killings [of sheep] were reported it was natural to conclude that they were the work of a sheep dog gone bush.1953V. Bartlett Struggle for Africa i. 24 An African may do the same job day after day for months or years, and then suddenly ‘go bush’, omit some vital part of his routine, even say or do things which he himself cannot remember or explain when the mood is over.1958R. Stow To Islands 118 Brother Heriot has disappeared. He's gone bush somewhere and he might never come back.1964Economist 30 May 1000/1 To take refuge from [Australian] urban problems by ‘going bush’.
10. attrib. and general Comb.:
a. in sense 1, as bush-fagot, bush-fruit, bush-ground, bush-planting, bush-tuft; bush-clad, bush-covered, bush-fringed, bush-grown, bush-like, bush-skirted adjs.;
b. in senses 7 and 8, as bush-beard, bush-hair, bush-head, bush-tail, bush-wig; so bush-bearded, bush-haired, bush-headed, bush-tailed adjs.;
c. in sense 9 (= ‘in the Bush’), as bush-country, bush-farm, bush-farming, bush-fire, bush-flat, bush-girl, bush-hand, bush-hut, bush-inn, bush-land, bush-life, bush-line, bush-range, bush-rider, bush-school, bush-shanty, bush-tea, bush-track, bush-walking (so bush-walk, bush-walker), bush-work, bush-worker, bush-ranger.
1606Sir G. Goosecappe i. i. in O. Pl. (1884) III. 11 He weares a *bush beard.1662Greenhalgh in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 309. IV. 8 A learned Jew with a mighty bush⁓beard.
1615A. Stafford Heav. Dogge 59 An austere *bushbearded Philosopher.1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career II. i. 13 He was a fair, huge, bush-bearded man.
1909Westm. Gaz. 4 June 5/3 The *bush-clad plains of the North-Eastern Transvaal.
1855W. G. Simms Forayers 544 Who would have thought of any fellow being such a..booby as to bring a bathing-tub..into..*bush country?1859J. Rochfort in Jrnl. R. Geogr. Soc. (1862) XXXII. 297 In looking across this lake you perceive a flat bush-country.1954J. Collin-Smith Scorpion on Stone xx. 291 The lightening landscape of uninhabited scrub and bush-country.
1873J. H. H. St. John Pakeha Rambles through Maori Lands v. 67 The dark *bush-covered hills of the Hunua.1901‘Linesman’ Words Eye-witness (1902) 81 The rocky bush-covered foot of Schwartz Kop.
1843Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IV. ii. 292 Two rows of *bush-faggots are laid for perhaps 50 yards in advance on the mud at low water.
1851Househ. Words II. 490 He had been down to the port from his *Bush-farm to sell his stuff.
1866M. Lemon Wait for End. x. 131 His log-house and his *bush-farming.
1845L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Exped. Austral. 12 Feb. (1847) v. 147 The smoke of extensive *bush-fires was observed under Lord's Table Range.1868Dilke Greater Brit. II. iii. iii. 32 The smoke from these bush-fires sometimes extends for hundreds of miles to sea.
1847N.Z. Jrnl. VII. cxc. 90 The Ma-Whera river, another very considerable stream running through fine *bush flats.1960B. Crump Good Keen Man 136 Four deer and three hours later we came to a long bush-flat where the trees were enormous.
1891‘J. Evelyn’ Baffled Vengeance 47 The river between its *bush-fringed banks.
1884Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 11/1 *Bush fruit, including gooseberries..raspberries, nuts, &c.
1822New Monthly Mag. Sept. 414/2 She was, in fact, the prettiest young *Bush-girl I had yet seen.1963W. Soyinka Lion & Jewel 9 Bush-girl you are, bush-girl you'll always be; Uncivilized and primitive—bush-girl!
1523Fitzherb. Surv. 34 b, Howe moche wode grounde or *busshe grounde, heythe, lyng, or suche other.
1837Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1871) I. 51 A deep dell, wooded and *bush grown.1884M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 32 The little bush-grown beck which bounded our parish.
1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2809/4 Another..Man..with small grey Eyes, brown *bush Hair.
1530Palsgr. 307/1 *Busshe heered, crespelleux.
1863S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settlement x. 147 How many hands shall you want? We will say a couple of good *bush hands, who will put up your hut and yards and wool-shed.1867M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) xxi. 183 First came two of the most experienced ‘bush-hands’.
a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 196 Your puppet being lifted aboue the Priests *bush head.1552Huloet, *Bussh hedded, or he that hath a good bussh of heare.
1775S. Thayer Jrnl. (1867) 12 Our troops..had not the satisfaction..to build..a *Bush hut to pass the tedious night in.1867M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) xxi. 181 The mistress of this charming bush-hut insisted on our having some hot coffee.1885Mrs. Praed Australian Life iii. 73 The usual bush hut of slabs and bark.
1881Mrs. Praed Policy & P. I. 59 The driver paused before a *bush inn.
1881Grant Bush Life Queensl. I. viii. 96 Holding the long sweeping tail, tangled in a huge *bush-knot.
1842C. Heaphy Narr. Residence N.Z. viii. 103 The *bush land will be cleared with less..expense than at Wellington.1862Lytton St. Story lxxxvii, All the Bush-land..was on fire.
1868Dilke Greater Brit. II. iii. ii. 14 Tropical bush-lands in which sheep-farming is impossible.
1849Lytton Caxtons ii. xvii. ci, The memory of that wild *Bush-life.
1878Ogle Flowers & Unb. Guests iv. 37 Great *bush-like plants of Senecio.
1889R. Paulin Wild West Coast N.Z. xiv. 119 Fresh snow..came down to within 2000 feet of sea level—i.e., considerably below the *bush-line.1955J. K. Baxter Fire & Anvil iii. 58 A hut above the bush-line of the Southern Alps.
1879T. W. Gudgeon Reminisc. War N.Z. xii. 70 Allowing the Hauhaus to erect a strong pah in the *bush-ranges.
1883Field 10 Feb. 199 The tremendous stock whips of the Australian *bush-riders.
1852G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes III. ii. 61 The humble hedge-school—or rather *bush-school..and a crowd of flaxen..children rushing from its porch.1896H. Lawson While Billy Boils 3 You remember when we hurried home from the old bush school.1936G. Greene Journey without Maps ii. 97 Even in the Sierra Leone Protectorate..most natives..will attend a bush school.1942J. S. Huxley in Political Q. XIII. 395 Over most of Africa..not 10 per cent of the schools are anything but the most primitive sub-elementary bush-schools, confining themselves to hymn-singing, the catechism, and the rudiments of the three R's.
1857S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 169 Crop crept close alongside of me, in our *bush-shanty.1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms III. xi. 161 Like a man in..a bush shanty, not likely to wake before sunrise.1924H. T. Gibson That Gibbie Galoot 66 Most bush shanties possess such a butt.
1858H. Miller Sch. & Schm. 313 This woody, *bush-skirted walk.
1606Wily Beguiled in Hazl. Dodsley IX. 290, I might have turned my fair *bushtail to you instead of your father.1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4453/3 A..Danish Bitch, with a Black Muzzle, and a long Bush Tail.
1872W. F. Butler Gt. Lone Land xxi. (1875) 339 The *bush-tailed..clean-legged animals.
1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. ii. 43 *Bush tea is..boiled in a can.
1832N.S.W. Cal. & G.P.O. Directory 51 Several *bush tracks lead to the farms.1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee i. 17 He..catches his father's favourite mare..and drives like mad over the five miles of rough bush track.1968K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 12 It was the shooter going to work, following a bush track that skirted the box flat.
1586Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 77 Fro the sun beames safe lie lyzardes vnder a *bushtufte.
1956S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 196 Nothing deters young hikers from going bare-legged on *bushwalks.
1955Times 21 June 9/5 Four hundred soldiers, police and *bush-walkers..are searching 5,000 ft Mount Baw Baw for Mihran Haig.
1853in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 133 Beyond it there are two miles of *bush walking along what is called ‘a line’.1957Times 2 Dec. 9/6 Four members of a bushwalking club who were burnt to death when trapped by a bush fire in the Blue Mountains yesterday.1959Ibid. 23 Sept. 1/4 Experience in out-door life such as skiing..bushwalking.
1805Miniature (1806) No. 34 II. 175 Sober whist is by no means below the dignity of a *bush⁓wig.
1830Galt Laurie T. ii. xi. (1849) 78, I knew as little of *bush-work as any other store-keeper or mechanic.1852Fraser's Mag. XLV. 240 The sort of service that fits..for the bush-work of the Cape.
1936I. L. Idriess Cattle King v. 41 He found a fair sale from travelling *bush-workers.
d. (Extended use of sense 9, passing into adj.) Crude; rough and ready; without the formal training or qualifications usually considered necessary for an occupation.
1851E. J. Wakefield Let. to Sir G. Grey 31 The stock-owner, though brought up as a gentleman, if he lives long in the ‘bush’, learns first to be proud of the ‘bush’ manners, and then becomes unfit for any but ‘bush’ society.1870R. P. Whitworth Martin's Bay Settlement 48/2, I found..tied to a stick (a bush candlestick), about two inches of candle.1873M. A. Barker Station Amusem. N.Z. vi. 101 He was what is called a bush-carpenter: i.e. a wandering carpenter, who travels from station to station, doing any little odd jobs wanted.Ibid. ix. 150 A bush doctor..was likely to be round by Simmons', cos o' his missus.1891G. Chamier Philosopher Dick I. vi. 141 The table was laid in regular bush style, with tin plates and pannikins, iron forks and spoons.1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee! ix. 115 Pilkins' gate, a skilful piece of rough bush carpentry, swinging on a wooden pivot.1933E. Jones Autobiogr. Early Settler xi. 52 As it was too far to get a tradesman up for any repairs, we were all, what was called, ‘Bush Carpenters’.1944Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) 9/2 Any available timber was turned into ingenious bush furniture.1960B. Crump Good Keen Man 114, I..put nine stitches in his [sc. the dog's] side with a pack-needle and string... He recovered..from both the wound and the bush surgery.
11. Spec. combs.: bush adder (see quot., and cf. boske addre s.v. bosk); bush antelope, ? = bush-buck; bush-baby, an African lemur of the species Galago senegalensis; bush baptist slang (chiefly Austral. and N.Z.) (see quot. 1959); bush basil, Ocymum minimum; bush-bean, the American name for the Kidney-bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); bush-bill, ? a bill-hook; bushboy, a native Australian or South African bushman; Bush Brotherhood, a society of missionaries, clerical and lay, established to evangelize the inhabitants of the Australian bush; hence Bush Brother; bush burn N.Z., the burning of bush on cultivable land; land so cleared; so bush-burning vbl. n.; bush canary, the popular name of various birds in Australia and New Zealand (see quots.); bush-car (see quot. 1926); bush-cat, the Serval or Tiger-cat of South Africa; bush-chat, a bird, one of the Chats or Saxicolæ; bush cow, (a) a wild cow of the bush; (b) the tapir; bushcraft, skill in matters pertaining to life in the bush; bush-creepers, a group of tropical birds belonging to the family of the Warblers; bush dassie, a S. African hyrax, Dendrohyrax arboreus arboreus; also attrib.; bush deer, in W. Africa, a gazelle; bush dog (see quot.); bush-draining, the draining of land by trenches filled with brushwood; bush-dray Austral. (see quot.); bush-drive, a drive of game in the South African bush; bush eel (see quots.); bush-faller, one who cuts down timber in the Bush; bush-falling, the felling of trees in the bush; bush flea, a variety of Pulex so called in Natal; bush-fly, an Australian blow-fly of the family Calliphoridæ; bush-goat = bush-buck; a S. African warbler, Camaroptera brachyura; bush gourd, the squash gourd, Cucurbita melopepo; bush-grass, Calamagrostis epigejos; bush-hawk, the New Zealand falcon, Falco novæseelandiæ; bush-hen N.Z., the weka, Gallirallus australis; bush-hog, a wild pig of South Africa, the bosch-vaark of the colonists; bush-hook, a bill-hook (U.S.); bush-house, a house or hut in the bush; in Australia, also one in a (suburban) garden; bush jacket, a belted cotton jacket; bush-lawyer, (a) the New Zealand Bramble (Rubus australis); (b) Austral. and N.Z., a layman who fancies he has a knowledge of law; an argumentative person; see also quot. 1874; bush-magpie, an Australian crow-shrike of the genus Gymnorhina; bush-master, a very venomous South American snake; bush nurse, a qualified nurse who is ‘on call’ in the remote districts of Australia; bush-pig, (a) a species of S. African swine, Potamochœrus porcus koiropotamus; (b) N.Z., a wild pig; bush pilot, the pilot of an aeroplane which flies over sparsely inhabited country (chiefly N. Amer.); bush poppy, an evergreen Californian shrub, Dendromecon rigida; bush-quail, (a) a hemipod; (b) an Indian bird of the genus Perdicula (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1893); bush-rat, a popular name for many small rodents; bush road, a road through the Bush; bush robin, the popular name esp. in Africa of various small birds; bush-scythe, a bill-hook; bush-sheep U.S. (see quot.); bush shirt, a loose-fitting light shirt worn by men in hot climates; bush-shrike, the English name of the Thamnophilinæ, a sub-family of the Shrikes; any of various birds belonging to the African subfamily Malaconotinæ; bush-sickness (see quots.); so bush-sick adj.; bush-sparrow, an American name for a kind of sparrow (see quot.); bush-spider, a large spider of S. America; bush-syrup (see quot.); bush tea, tea made from the leaves of certain shrubs, esp. those of species of Cyclopia, Borbonia, etc., dried and used medicinally in S. Africa; bush telegraph orig. Austral., bush-rangers' confederates who disseminated information as to the movements of the police; transf., rapid spreading of information, or of a rumour, etc.; the ‘grapevine’; bush-tick (see quot. 1886); also attrib. in bush-tick berry, the fruit of Osteospermum moniliferum; bush-tit, a bird of the genus Psaltriparus (Cent. Dict. 1889); bush-titmouse U.S. (see quot.); bush-track = bush-road; bush-tree, the Box (Buxus sempervirens); bush vetch, Vicia sepium; bush-warbler, any of several genera of warblers belonging to the family Sylviidæ, found in Asia, Australasia, and Africa; bush-water, rain water that collects in the low-lying parts of tropical forests; bush willow, in S. Africa, a plant of either of the species Combretum erythrophyllum or C. salicifolium; bushwoman, a woman living in the Australian or African bush; bush-wood, underwood, brushwood; bush-worm (see quot.); bush-wren, the New Zealand name for a bird of the species Xenicus longipes; see also bush-buck, -fighter, etc.
1611Cotgr., Anguille de bois..the *bush Adder, or wood snake.
1834Penny Cycl. II. 81/1 The *Bush Antelope (A. silvicultrix), called bush-goat by the English residents at Sierra Leone.
1901A. R. R. Turnbull Tales fr. Natal 81 The occasional cry of a *bush-baby alone broke the awful silence.1928Daily Tel. 15 May 14/3 Two bush babies, the pets of Baroness de Tuyll.
1902J. Milne Epistles of Atkins i. 18 Nothing is left to the imagination by the corporal who ranks himself among ‘*Bush Baptists and other fancy religions’, in order to evade Sunday Service.1959Baker Drum 97 Bush Baptist, a person of dubious religious persuasion or one who has no religious persuasion at all. Rare.
1597Gerard Herbal ccxii. §3. 547 *Bush Basill, or fine Basill, is a low and base plant.
1821Plough Boy II. 358/3 An opinion prevails here (Columbus, Ohio) that our soil is too rich, for the profitable culture of the *bush bean, (called, I believe, at the eastward, the fisher bean).1865Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. 1862 V. 518 We usually plant bush beans in garden drills.
1631Gouge God's Arrows v. §11. 421 Such men are more fit..to carrie a *bush-bill rather then a battell-axe.
a1834T. Pringle Poet. Wks. (1839) 8 Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent *Bush-boy alone by my side.1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 32/1, I found a funny little fellow in the shape of the Bushboy before alluded to, awaiting my arrival.1899J. Milne Romance Proconsul xiv. 149 He would..shoulder his rifle, and start off, with a couple of bush-boys for gillies.
1930Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Mar. 31/2 The *Bush Brother turned out to be a woman, born in Queensland.1950‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice 315 They were married by a travelling Church of England priest, one of the Bush Brothers.
1903Daily Chron. 7 Nov. 5/5 Founding a *Bush Brotherhood under the direction of the Bishop.
1861W. Morgan Jrnl. 27 Apr. (1963) iii. 29 Last week sowed some grass seed on *bush burn.1900J. G. Wilson in Rep. Agric. Societies N.Z. 132 On bush-burns, if sown at the rate of a few pounds per acre [cocksfoot] rapidly takes possession.1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Dec. 508/3 Thousands of acres were ploughed (much of it after a bush burn).1964Weekly News (Auckland) 22 Jan. 39/2 To burn everything cleanly but the heavy trunks is so important to the success of a bush burn.
1898J. Bell In Shadow of Bush xxx. 198 The season promised to be a good one for *bush-burning.
1904Hutton & Drummond Animals N.Z. ii. 91 The *Bush Canary. Mohua ochrocephala... The New Zealand Canary has a sharp, strident call, and its movements are quick and active.1918Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Feb. Red Page 4 White-throated Flyeater (Bush Canary) and other members of the genus Gerygone.1936H. Guthrie-Smith Sorrows & Joys N.Z. Naturalist viii. 67 The rain-forests beloved of the Bush Canary.1946J. C. Andersen in Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. June 154 Mohua, a gregarious bird (Mohoua ochrocephala), South Island form of the bush-canary, the North Island form (Mohoua albicilla) being upokotea.
1921United Free Ch. Mission Rec. Apr. 116/1 She left at midday in a *bush-car.1926Ibid. May 227/1 The bush-car is an arm-chair placed high above one wheel, excellent for the narrow paths and high grass of Africa.
1780Forster in Phil. Trans. LXXI. 2 The common *Bush-cat of the Cape.Ibid. 3 Kolbe..speaks of a Tyger Bush-cat, which he describes as the largest of all the Wild Cats of the Cape-countries.
1847‘A. Harris’ Settlers & Convicts xiv. 287 On a new farm..the stockyard..is necessary for milking *bush cows.1851W. H. Brett Indian Missions Guiana 37 The tapir or maipuri, called the bush-cow by the settlers.1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 734 The bush cow came on, and drove its horns through his thigh.
1871C. L. Money Knocking about in N.Z. iii. 29 He gave me my first lessons in *bushcraft such as a knowledge of edible roots, modes of crossing rivers, snaring birds.1897Westm. Gaz. 22 July 4/2 Leichardt perished..because he lacked the rudiments of bushcraft.1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxvi. 324 Real scouting and bush-craft will always be part of the station life.
1911East London Dispatch 20 Dec. 5 (Pettman), *Bush dassie flesh was the staple food for the Hottentots.
1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 734 He..put his net into the forest, and caught *bush deer (gazelles).
1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 438/2 Icticyon, with one small species, Canis venaticus, the *Bush Dog, from Guiana and Brazil.
1732De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. (1769) II. 179 These last cold and wet Lands have been..greatly improved, by draining off the Rain-water..an Invention, called *Bush-draining.
1848Haygarth Bush Life Australia v. 48 The *bush-dray, the only vehicle used in New South Wales for the conveyance of wool and other produce, is open and low, more resembling a brewer's dray than any other description of dray known in England.
1899Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 831 At the *bush-drives so common in the [Cape] Colony, Blue-buck are seldom turned out.
1828Hone Table-book II. 224 At this season when persons, at inns in Lincolnshire, ask for ‘eel pie’, they are presently provided with ‘*bush eels’; namely snakes, caught for that purpose in the bushes.1965R. & D. Morris Men & Snakes vii. 160 In hard times the grass snake and other species were eaten as ‘hedge eels’ or ‘bush eels’.
1882Pall Mall G. 29 June 2/1 A broken-down, deserted shanty, inhabited once, perhaps, by rail-splitters, or *bush-fallers.
1882W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. 184 We worked steadily at *bush-falling.1921H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxii. 203 Bush-falling had barely been started.
1899G. Russell Old Durban 503 The *Bush Flea..is quite content to share your camp blanket if you do not resent his liberty of action.
1934A. Russell Tramp-Royal xxvii. 172 No sooner were the *bush-flies at rest than plagues of sand-flies would rise up to take their places.1952M. Boyd Cardboard Crown v. 85 The room..was thick with the buzzing of bush-flies, a species of blow-fly.
1865Athenæum No. 1948. 279/1 A new species of *Bush-goat.1908Haagner & Ivy Sk. S. Afr. Birdlife 79 This Warbler is called the Bush-goat on account of the plaintive goat-like call to which the bird gives utterance.
1842*Bush gourd [see squash-melon pumpkin s.v. squash n.2 4].
1882W. Buller Man. Birds N.Z. 2 The *Bush-Hawk is generally met with on the outskirts of the woods.
1939J. Mulgan Man Alone 80 *Bush-hens were calling across the valley.
1854Chamb. Jrnl. I. 66 By good luck we came on a *bush-hog.
1883Harper's Mag. Dec. 44/1 Shrubs that..had run the gauntlet of the *bush-hook.
1834C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing 367 Saratogue, for politicians, is jist like the *bush-houses for killing pigeons.1901F. Campbell Love, the Atonement ix. 133 Let us have ices in the bush-house.1902W. Satchell Land of Lost xviii. 164 ‘Come around to the bush-house.’.. They seated themselves together on a rustic seat among the ferns.1939J. Cary Mister Johnson 11 The station..consists of six old bush houses, with blackened thatch reaching almost to the ground.1959M. Neville Sweet Night for Murder xviii. 175 The bush-house..was made of brushwood and housed seed boxes..indoor plants, and bulbs under sacks waiting for planting.
1939M. B. Picken Lang. of Fashion 16/1 *Bush jacket or coat, belted, hip-length jacket.1959‘M. Derby’ Tigress ii. 62 He took the plastic flask from his bush-jacket pocket.1961Listener 24 Aug. 292/2 The familiar picture of Fidel Castro with beard, bush-jacket and peak-cap.
1853Fraser's Mag. XLVIII. 258 Half dead with their long struggle against the ‘*bush-lawyer’, a tough and tangled bramble.1874A. Bathgate Colonial Exper. xvi. 225 The bush lawyers, or mining agents, which is the name they accept,..are of great use to the diggers.1908E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 13 A ‘bush’ carpenter is a very admirable person, when he is not also a bush lawyer.1926J. Doone Timely Tips New Australians Gloss., Bush-lawyer, a man who gratuitously voices legal opinions although possessing no qualifications for doing so.1933N. Scanlan Tides of Youth viii. 91 You're a regular bush-lawyer.1948B. James in Coast to Coast 1947 168 Mrs. Bolton loved the touch of legality, being a good deal of a bush lawyer.1948V. Palmer Golconda iv. 29 It's easier to find a bush-lawyer than a man who's bent his back at all sorts of jobs.
1890E. E. Morris Cassell's Picturesque Australasia II. 235 The College precincts are sacred to the classic muse and the omnipresent *bush-magpie.
1826Edin. Rev. XLIII. 300 The most venomous of reptiles, and known by the name of the *bush-master.1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 267 The couni-couchi, or bush-master, is the most dreaded of all the South American snakes.
1933Bulletin (Sydney) 28 June 20/4 He was under the *bush nurse for a fortnight.
1840J. S. Polack Manners & Customs N.Z. II. 270 The narrator had been hunting the cochon maron or *bush-pig.1844J. Backhouse Narr. Mauritius & S. Afr. 213 The Bosch Vark, Bush Pig.1907W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 20 Mutton down to the price of bush-pig.1910J. Buchan Prester John xiv, I was inclined to think him a very large bush-pig.
1936Beaver Mar. 52/2 The northern *bush pilot is dependent solely on his own good judgement, resourcefulness and initiative.1948‘N. Shute’ No Highway ix. 243 The pilot was to be a civilian bush-pilot called Hennessey, a thick-set tough who knew that country [sc. Labrador] intimately.1948Shell Aviation News cxxv. 2/1 The small aircraft, usually single-engined, flown by the bush pilot.
1869J. Muir First Summer in Sierra (1911) 51 A marked plant is the *bush poppy (Dendromecon rigidum).1900W. D. Drury Bk. Gardening 281 Californian Bush Poppy.
1893H. A. Bryden Gun & Camera in S. Afr. 158 Tiny *bush-quail (Turnix lepurana), dainty creatures, scarcely bigger than sparrows.1964A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 625/1 The so-called ‘bush quails’ of India (Perdicula) are dwarf partridges.
1867Amer. Naturalist I. 399 The *Bush Rat (Neotoma Mexicana) is abundant throughout the territory [sc. Arizona].1889Trans. N.Z. Inst. XXII. 301 On the habits of the New Zealand Bush-rat (Mus maorium).1947I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxii. 213 There were bush rats and water rats.1966Southerly XXVI. 93 You, long-dead entomologist Sidney, like this bush rat, have found the crumbling edge cave in.
1827P. Cunningham Two Years N.S.W. I. 123 A made *bush-road is one where the brushes have been cleared, banks of rivers and gullies levelled, [etc.]..; while a natural bush-road signifies one to which nothing has been done except notching the trees, the carts simply following each other's track.1857W. Westgarth Victoria & Austr. Gold Mines xi. 250 The gloomy antithesis of good bush-rangers and bad bush-roads.1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee i. 2 Along the side of the Ironbark ranges was a bush road, leading to the hamlet.1966Weekly News (N.Z.) 1 June 43/2 In the area that we visited, which is already served by the bush road, we saw isolated kauri trees more than five feet in diameter.
1901A. C. Stark Birds S. Afr. II. 217 Tarsiger stellatus. White-starred *Bush Robin.Ibid. 219 Tarsiger silens. Silent Bush Robin.1932Discovery July 231/2 No bird calls but the bush-robin with chrome-yellow underparts and silver stars on his slate-blue forehead.
1552Huloet, Byl called a forest bil, or *bush-sithe.1856Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. VII. 54 D. O. and W. S. Perry..[exhibited] three bush scythes.1874Rep. Vermont Board Agric. II. 194 It is possible to subdue them..by cutting them off near the ground with a bush-scythe.
1869Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. 1867–8 VII. 457 Sheep shipped in for sale because they ‘didn't flourish’ on prairie grass. These ‘*bush sheep’, as they are called, have been in abundant supply.
1909M. S. Kisch Let. Nigeria (1910) xii. 169 This is the kind of costume I go about in; a *bush shirt..and long native-made boots.1953D. Lessing Five iii. 144 Now he strode fast over the ground, his loose bush-shirt flying around him.
1893Newton Dict. Birds 21 The large genus Thamnophilus, containing upwards of 50 species, is one of the most important of the so-called ‘*Bush-Shrikes’.1932Discovery Jan. 25/2 A wonderful new black-breasted bush-shrike..an entirely new species..christened Chlorophoneus nigrescens.1953R. Campbell Mamba's Precipice iv. 40 A pretty bush-robin came out..followed by a lovely bush-shrike with a bright green back, a yellow stomach, and a brilliant crimson chest.
1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 31/1 The amount of cobaltised fertiliser used..in 1949..would be sufficient to correct cobalt deficiency in 940,000 acres of *bush-sick pasture.
1929Times 1 July 15/6 Lack of minerals in pastures causes innumerable diseases, such as..‘*bush-sickness’..in New Zealand.Ibid. 16/2 Able to..identify ‘Nakuruitis’ as similar to ‘bush-sickness’ in New Zealand.1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 67/3 As a result of research in both New Zealand and Australia, the cause of bush sickness was found in 1935 to be a deficiency of cobalt.
1869J. Burroughs in Galaxy Mag. Aug., A favourite sparrow of my own..is the wood, or *bush-sparrow, usually called spizella pusilla.
1796Stedman Surinam II. xx. 93 A *bush-spider of such magnitude, that putting him into a case-bottle above eight inches high, he..reached the surface with some of his hideous claws.
1866Treas. Bot. s.v., *Bush Syrup, a saccharine fluid obtained from the flowers of Protea mellifera, in the Cape Colony.
1768Holyoke Diaries (1911) 30 Began to take *Bush Tea.1838J. E. Alexander Exped. Interior Afr. I. 141 He regaled Mr. Schmelen and myself on boiled salt beef and bush tea.1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Bush Tea, the leaflets of a species of Cyclopia, probably C. latifolia,..supposed to possess expectorant and restorative properties.1902‘X. C.’ Everyday Life in Cape Colony ix. 122 In most of these Colonial stores ‘bush’ tea can be bought.1946Cape Argus 27 Feb. 6/9 In the country districts bushtea has many names—honey tea, boer tea, rooibos and so on.
1878Australian I. 507 (Morris), The police are baffled by..the number and activity of the *bush telegraphs.1893K. Mackay Out Back v, A hint dropped in this town set the bush telegraphs riding in all directions.1934Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Nov. 21/1 The bush telegraph sends tidings to and fro.1946U. Krige Way Out x. 121 We had heard too many ‘latrinograms’ now to be unduly impressed by the particular form of bush-telegraph..practised by the Italian peasants.1951‘N. Shute’ Round the Bend 208 ‘How did the Imam get to know about it?’.. ‘The bush telegraph works very well, here in Bahrein.’1954L. P. Hartley White Wand i. 12 ‘How did he know that I was here?’ I asked—a silly question from someone who knew the workings of the Venetian bush-telegraph as well as I did.
1856C. J. Andersson Lake Ngami ii. 20 Besides myriads of fleas, our encampment swarmed with a species of *bush-tick.1865Harvey & Sonder Flora Capensis III. 436 A large bush..the Colonial name is Bush-tick Berry.1886Pall Mall Gaz. 22 July 4/1 The carrapato, or bush-tick..is a degenerate spider.1893Newton Dict. Birds 83 Chamæa... ‘*Bush-Tit’ and ‘Ground-Wren’.
1881Amer. Naturalist XV. 213 That diminutive little bird, the least *bush titmouse (Psaltriparus minimus).
1864Reader 2 Apr. 420/1 The roads from the nascent metropolis still partook mainly of the random character of *‘bush tracks’.
1595Duncan Append. Etym. (E.D.S.) Buxus, the *bush-tree.1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 127 A litle way off was a great high bush-tree as though it had no leaues.
1898Morris Austral Eng., Gerygone... In New Zealand they are called *Bush-warblers.
1808Ann. Reg. 1806 856 Some were cutting wood for firing—Some collecting *bush-water with a calabash.1871J. E. Jenkins Coolie ix. 120 That strange ebonised ‘bush-water’, which..anon curls and eddies round us like the smiles on a Negro's face.1891Eng. Illustr. Mag. Feb. 383 The plantations..were surrounded by four dams or embankments;..one behind to exclude the ‘bush water’, the accumulated rain of the interior.
1917R. Marloth Dict. Common Names of Plants 89 The so-called ‘Bushveld [Willow]’ or ‘*Bush [Willow]’ is Combretum salicifolium.
1863Lyell Antiq. Man 484 The human brain here given..is that of an African *bushwoman.1874W. M. Baines Narr. E. Crewe viii. 192 The white bushwoman—creatures of a mature age, hideous to look upon.1905Daily Chron. 16 Dec. 4/7 Bushmen and bushwomen within a radius of forty or fifty miles ride to these functions.
1768Wales in Phil. Trans. LX. 119 It is entirely covered with low *bush-wood.1852Lytton My Novel in Blackw. Mag. LXXI. 184, I perceived the form of a man seated amongst the bushwood.
1796Stedman Surinam II. xxiii. 183, I had now extracted out of my right arm two dreadful insects..These are called in Surinam the *bush-worms, and are the shape and size of the aurelia of the common butterfly, with a pointed tail and black head.
1887W. L. Buller Birds N.Z. I. 115 *Bush-wren [Xenicus longipes]..is generally met with singly or in pairs.

Add:[11.] bush league Baseball, a minor league, esp. one of mediocre quality; freq. transf. and attrib.
1906*Bush league [implied in bush leaguer below].1908Baseball Mag. July 79/2 Being from Chicago, that bush league town wasn't good enough to hold Hermaine's sandals.1914‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 8 Bush league trick, a trick indulged in which is not in harmony with its surroundings.1928D. Parker in New Yorker 12 May 20/2 Well, well, well, to think of me having real Scotch; I'm out of the bush leagues at last.1949A. Hynd We are Public Enemies iv. 108 He was..a bushleague Chicago gambler.1955Sci. Amer. Sept. 188/2 This is a first-class piece of ratiocination and scientific detection which makes the efforts of highly touted police and crime laboratories seem bush-league stuff.1973Hockey Digest Apr. 8/2 What does Hockey Digest think of the WHA and how long will it last? I think it is a bush league.1986N.Y. Post 9 July 57/3 This is an example of poor sportsmanship... It is international bush league.
hence bush leaguer, one who plays in a minor league; also transf., small timer.
1906Sporting Life 10 Feb. 4/4 Consider the *bush leaguer on the bench! He toils not neither does he spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.1943S. Lewis G. Planish xxv. 301 He peeped into every new organization to promote religion—and there were perhaps six new ones a week in New York City—because these bush-leaguers might have some new ideas.1975S. Bellow Humboldt's Gift (1976) 180, I don't care who she is and what she knows, compared to Polly she's a bush leaguer.

bushmeat n. (as a mass noun) wild animals hunted for food, esp. in Africa; the meat from these animals.
1842Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 13 15 This might have been accounted for by the practice of the natives, who set fire to the grass in the dry season for the purpose of catching wild animals, which they call ‘*bush-meat’.1966U. Beier tr. O. Ijimere Imprisonment of Obatala 91 You will not leave my house without eating. And we have bushmeat today!2004Farang May 14/1 The two men are tense, despite the fact that hunting for bush-meat—wild mammals and birds—has been a lifelong occupation and necessity.
II. bush, n.2|bʊʃ|
[app. a. MDu. busse, (mod.Du. bus) Box, bush of a wheel; cf. G. büchse, radbüchse, Sw. hjul-bössa ‘wheel-bush’. Cf., for the form, early forms of blunderbuss, harquebus, in -bush. As to connexion with bouche, see bush v.3]
1. The metal lining of the axle-hole of a wheel; hence, the metal (or wooden) case in which the journal of a shaft revolves. (Cf. box n.2 16.)
b. A cylindrical metal lining of an orifice; a perforated plug, cylinder, or disk; esp. a drilled plug inserted in the touch-hole of a gun, or in a bearing of a watch when worn (cf. bouche).
1566in Collect. Invent. (1815) 169 Item, fyve buscheis of found for cannonis and batterd quheillis.1578Ibid. 250 Garnist with yron werk and bousches of fonte.1625Invent. in Shropshire Word-bk. (E.D.S.) One paire of bushes..one paire of bushes soles.1688R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 332 The Busshes are Irons within the hole of the Nave to keep it from wearing.1770J. Ferguson Lect. (1805) I. 82 The upper part of the spindle turns in a wooden bush fixt into the nether millstone.1797A. Cumming Commun. Board of Agric. II. 365 The nave is commonly lined with metal, which lining is called the box or bush.1865Ld. Elcho in Times 9 Mar., What are ordinarily known as front aperture sights, i.e. solid discs or bushes pierced in the centre.1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 95 The hole is tapped at one end to receive a bush.
2. Comb. bush-metal, an alloy of copper and tin used for journals.
III. bush, v.1|bʊʃ|
For forms see n.
[f. bush n.1]
1. trans. To set in a bush or thicket as a place of concealment, to place in ambush; intr. (for refl.) to hide in a bush, lie in ambush. (Cf. bush n.1 4.) Obs.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 187 Saladyn priuely was bussed beside þe flom.c1400Destr. Troy 1168 Lurkyt vnder lefe⁓sals loget with vines, Busket vndur bankes on bourders with-oute.c1440York Myst. xiii. 8, I may nowder buske ne belde But owther in frith or felde.1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ii. (1520) 11 Coryn sholde go out and busshe hym in a wode.1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 263 The Pechtis than wes buschit neir hand by.1623Daniel Hymen's Tri. ii. i, Being closely bush'd a pretty Distance off.
2. To protect (trees, etc.) with bushes or cut brushwood set round about; to support with bushes.
1647MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp. Canterb., Paid for bushes to bush the ashes in the meadowe vjd.1676Worlidge Cider (1691) 34 Care must be taken to bush them, so that cattel may not rub against them.1741Compl. Fam.-Piece iii. 416 Let the Sets be bushed about for some time, to prevent their being injured.1884[see bushed 2 b].
3. To protect (land or game) from net-poachers by placing bushes or branches at intervals in the preserved ground, so as to interrupt the sweep of a net. Also absol.
1843Carlyle Past & Pr. 288 Assist us still better to bush the partridges.Ibid. iv. viii. (1872) 254 Game-preserving Aristocracies, let them ‘bush’ never so effectually, cannot escape the Subtle Fowler.1860Chamb. Jrnl. XIV. 274 As for netting by night, bush your fields closely.1883J. Purves in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 355 They know the fields to avoid for net-work, those that have been bushed—i.e. irregularly dotted with posts driven upright into the ground.
4. To bush-harrow (ground, etc.); to cover in (seed) with a bush-harrow.
1787Winter Syst. Husb. 313 Sow the clover seed, which bush in, by the horses walking in the furrows.1848Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IX. i. 10 By attention to the spreading and bushing the field the whole surface becomes..changed.
5. See quot.; cf. bush-draining in bush n.1 11.
1838New Monthly Mag. LIII. 32 They might hae thocht of bushing the tent-pegs..This is done, on the approach of heavy rain, by digging a hole near each tent-peg, and filling it with brushwood, to act as a sort of drain and prevent the water from saturating the ground, and making the pegs draw.
6. To tether a horse by burying the knotted end of the head-rope in the ground.
1871Daily News 11 Sept., The system of ‘bushing’, by which the officers' horses of the 9th Lancers are now fastened.
7. a. intr. To be bushy, to grow thick like a bush.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 133 a, It [wilde Thyme] busheth largely, and groweth somthyng asyde.1667Milton P.L. ix. 426 So thick the Roses bushing round About her glowd.1809Parkins Culpepper's Eng. Physic. Enl. 257 Greyish or whitish leaves..many bushing together at a joint.
b. transf. of hair. Also with out.
1509Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 159 Their heare out bushing as a foxes tayle.1526Skelton Magnyf. 844 My heyr bussheth So plesauntlie.1575Turberv. Bk. Falconrie 369 The dogge becommes more beautifull by cutting the toppe of his sterne: for then will it bushe out verie gallantly.
c. of the ‘tail’ of a comet. Obs.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1314/1 There appeared a blasing star in the south, bushing toward the east.
8. to bush about or bush out: ? to beat or hunt about for (as for game). Cf. busk v.2 2.
1686(3 June) MS. Let. from Job Charnock & Council of Húgli to Council at Balasore, Wee take notice that you can Procure us about 20mds [maunds] of Wax, pray bushe out for some more.a1734North Life Ld. Guilford (1742) 201 They are forced to bush about for ways and means to pay their rent and charges.
9. To camp in the bush. Usu. with it. Austral. and N.Z. Obs.
1827W. J. Dumaresq Let. in G. Mackaness Fourteen Journeys (1950–1) 99 Not being provided for bushing it, in these early frosts, we made up our minds to return.1846N.Z. Jrnl. VI. 166/1, I passed the night under a pine⁓tree..and awoke, after my first experience of ‘bushing it’, exceedingly refreshed.1853Mrs. C. Clacy Visit to Gold Diggings Australia 245 If this fails, you must just bush it for the night.1862J. Goldie Jrnl. 5 May in H. Beattie Pioneers explore Otago (1947) 98, I resolved to scramble along the side of the lake..even although we had to ‘bush it’ for a night or two.1868People's Mag. II. 365/2, I have ‘bushed’ it many a rough night in Australia.
IV. bush, v.2 Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 4 busche, 4–5 bussh(e, 5 boyssh(e, 6 bush.
[Deriv. uncertain: cf. OF. buschier ‘frapper, heurter’, MDu. buusschen (= MHG. biuschen) to knock, beat; also push.]
intr. To butt with the head; to push.
1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. II. 191 He may busche aȝenst men and horshedes and breke strong dores wiþ his heed.1398Barth. De P.R. xviii. iii. (1495) 749 The ramme is excyted and busshyth full strongely.1515Scot. Field 439 Then full boldlie on the brode hills, we bushed with our standarts.1590Greene Mourn. Garm. 33 If he bush not at beautie.1864E. Capern Devon Provinc., To Bush, to butt or strike with the head.
Hence ˈbushing vbl. n.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lix. (1495) 273 A postume comyth..of brekynge and brusinge and boysshynge and hurtelynge.1399Langl. Rich. Redeless i. 99 Þey made ȝou to leue þat regne ȝe ne myȝte, Withoute busshinge adoune of all ȝoure best ffrendis.
V. bush, v.3|bʊʃ|
[f. bush n.2; originally said of wheels; with the extension of the word to the vent of muskets, etc., it appears to have been erroneously associated with F. bouche mouth, boucher to stop up (see next), or bouchon cork, plug; whence the frequent later bouche v.]
1. trans. To furnish with a bush; to line (an orifice) with metal.
1566Invent. 168 (Jam.) Item, ane pair of new cannone quheillis buschit with brass.1675Cotton Burlesque upon B. 233 (D.) [He] Bushes the Naves, clouts th' Axle-trees.1781Thompson in Phil. Trans. LXXI. 264 The vent of a musket is very soon enlarged by firing, and..it is found necessary to stop it up with a solid screw, through the center of which a new vent is made of the proper dimensions. This operation is called bushing, or rather bouching the piece.1882Field 16 Sept. 410 A 12-gauge gun that I had bushed on my system.
2. transf.
1881C. A. Edwards Organs 69 The front pin is bushed by two or three thicknesses of baize..to avoid rattling.
VI. bush, v.4 Obs.
[a. F. boucher to shut an aperture; of doubtful derivation: see Littré.]
To stop a hole, opening, or passage.
a1659Osborn Observ. Turks (1673) 315 Eyeing Christians with a high disdain, for..bushing the way to Heaven with Purgatory and other Bugbears.a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. ix. II. 279 If..all the holes in the world be not shut up, stopped, closed, and bushed.
VII. bush(e
obs. form of buss.
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