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bushment|ˈbʊʃmənt|
Forms: 4 bussche-, busse-, buysche-, buche-, buchy-, 4–6 busch(e)-, busshe-, (5 bussh-), 5–6 bushe-, 6 bus-, 5– bushment.
[In senses 1–3, an aphetic form of abushment, ambushment, q.v. In some early quotations it is difficult to know whether abushment or a bushment was intended. In sense 4, cf. bush n.1 + -ment.]
1. = ambushment 1. arch.
1375Barbour Bruce viii. 442 A buschement slely maid he thair. 1393Gower Conf. I. 349 And of his men a great partie He made in busshement abide. c1440Generydes ii. 5977 In a buschement he layde his men eche on. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 133 Your peple that shal be hydde in the busshement. 1553Brende Q. Curtius iii. D ij, For feare the enemyes should lye there in busshement. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 86 Two Gascoin Lords warie bushment make. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 54 The barbarous folk Once and again from bushments on us broke.
†2. = ambushment 2. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 13014 A busshement of bold men breke hym vpon. c1465Eng. Chron. (1856) 48 In the way as he sholde go, lay a greet busshement of Frensshemenne to take him. a1550Christis Kirke Gr. xix, The buschment haill about him brak, An bickert him with bows.
†3. A surprise party; = ambushment 3. Obs.
1513More Rich. III (1557) 64/2 A bushement of the dukes seruantes..began sodainely at mannes backes to crye owte as lowde as their throtes would gyve: King Rycharde. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. I. 144 Galdus assemblit ane army..and dividit the same in divers buschementis. 1549Latimer Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 187 Iudas also when he came wyth bushementes to take his maister Christe.
4. ‘A thicket, a cluster of bushes’ (J.); a mass of bushes. ? Obs.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. II. 169/2 The sides are full of great and mightie trees vpon the sides of the hils, and full of bushments and vnderwoods. 1614Raleigh Hist. World i. viii. §2. 111 These our grounds would..be covered, either with Woods, or with other offensive Thickets and Bushments. 1619W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 62 These thickets of bushment. 1762Dunn in Phil. Trans. LII. 466 The most distant trees and bushments.
†b. A bushy formation (of plumage). Obs.
1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 224 These byrdes..haue a much greater bushement of fethers. |