Word Meanings - BUSHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving. 2. Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs. Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood. Milton.

Related words: (words related to BUSHY)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• THICK
  1. Frequently; fast; quick. 2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. 3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. L'Estrange.
• BUSHY
  1. Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving. 2. Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs. Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood. Milton.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• THICKSET
  1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden. 2. Having a short, thick body; stout.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• DINGLE
  A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.
• DINGLE-DANGLE
  In a dangling manner.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• OVERGROW
  1. To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank. The green . . . is rough and overgrown. Sir W. Scott. 2. To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• THICKEN
  To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." Shak. The press of people thickens to the court. Dryden. The combat thickens, like the storm that flies. Dryden.
• THICKSKIN
  A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
• THICK-KNEE
  A stone curlew. See under Stone.
• THICK-HEADED
  Having a thick skull; stupid.
• NIRVANA
  In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• SIRVENTE
  A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages. (more info) originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, fr. sirvent,