† bushailen.
Obsolete.
a. A copse or thicket; often as a place of concealment, an ambush.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile lying in wait > place of ambush > a thicket
bushc1330
bushailea1400
a1400 Octouian 1607 Besyde Acrys, yn a boschayle They token rest.
?a1400 Morte Arthur 895 On blonkez by ȝone buscayle.
?a1400 Morte Arthur 1634 They buskede theme..In the buskayle of his waye.
c1430 Syr Gener. 9189 Thei..come out of here busshaile Streight forto bede hem bataile.
b. collective. Brushwood, underwood.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood
ronea1300
underwooda1325
rammel1338
brushetc1380
scroga1400
bushailec1400
frithing1429
brushal1430
brushc1440
ronec1440
thevec1440
garsil1483
shroga1500
cablish1594
south-bois1598
undergrowth1600
frith1605
hand timber1664
subbois1664
urith1671
brushwood1732
bush-wood1771
underbrush1775
slop1784
woodiness1796
scrub1805
shag1836
chaparral1845
underbush1849
underscrub1870
sand-brush1871
buck-brush1874
bush1879
horizontal scrub1888
tangle-wood1894
shin-tangle1905
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xxvii. 271 A gret yle fulle of Trees and Buscaylle.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xxvii. 271 Buscaylle & Thornes & Breres & grene Grasse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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