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blusheth | brusheth |

As verbs the difference between blusheth and brusheth

is that blusheth is archaic third-person singular of blush while brusheth is third-person singular of brush.

blusheth

English

Verb

(head)
  • (blush)

  • blush

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) blyscan . Cognate with Old Norse .

    Noun

    (es)
  • An act of blushing.
  • (uncountable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. Confer rouge.
  • A color between pink and cream.
  • Derived terms
    * blush is off the rose * at first blush

    Verb

    (es)
  • To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
  • * Milton
  • To the nuptial bower / I led her blushing like the morn.
  • * 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
  • But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush . He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.
  • To become red.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, / But stayed, and made the western welkin blush .
  • To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
  • * Shakespeare
  • To blush and beautify the cheek again.
  • To express or make known by blushing.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll blush you thanks.
  • To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
  • * T. Gray
  • Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
    Synonyms
    * flushing * reddening

    Etymology 2

    1486 Dame Julia Barnes. The Book of St Albans.

    Noun

    (es)
  • The collective noun for a group of boys.
  • A blush of boys.
    Usage notes
    This is probably a fanciful expression and is not in common use.
    References
    * Noun sense: 1986 Oxford Reference Dictionary: Appendix

    Anagrams

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    brusheth

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (brush)

  • brush

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
  • A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
  • The act of brushing something.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:[As leaves] have with one winter's brush / Fell from their boughs.
  • (lb) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees ().
  • *1906 , Jack London, :
  • *:We broke away]] toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they [[catch up, caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.
  • *{{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
  • , chapter=2, title= Internal Combustion , passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.}}
  • A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
  • :
  • *2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''', ''The Guardian , 13 September:
  • *:The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.
  • The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
  • *
  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
  • (lb) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
  • (lb) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
  • *Cornhill Magazine
  • *:Let us enjoy a brush across the country.
  • (lb) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
  • (lb) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
  • *2007 , Lee Lanier, Maya Professional Tips and Techniques , p.12:
  • *:Your bitmap image appears along the painted stroke. If you'd like to permanently create a custom sprite brush , it's fairly easy to adapt an existing MEL file.
  • (lb) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
  • The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
  • (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in wreathmaking.
  • Verb

  • To clean with a brush.
  • Brush your teeth.
  • To untangle or arrange with a brush.
  • Brush your hair.
  • To apply with a brush.
  • Brush the paint onto the walls.
  • To remove with a sweeping motion.
  • Brush the flour off your clothes.
  • * Shakespeare
  • As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed / With raven's feather from unwholesome fen.
  • To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
  • Her scarf brushed his skin.
  • * Fairfax
  • Some spread their sails, some with strong oars sweep / The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave.
  • * Milton
  • Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings.
  • * 1990 October 28, , Warner Bros.
  • Maybe you will find a love that you discover accidentally, who falls against you gently as a pickpocket brushes your thigh.

    Derived terms

    * as daft as a brush * bottle brush, bottlebrush * bristle brush * broad brush * brush aside * brush back, brushback * brush by * brush cut * brush down * brushed * brushless * brushmaker * brush off * brushfire * brush-off * brushtail * brushy * clothesbrush, clothes brush * hairbrush * live over the brush * paintbrush * paint with a broad brush * scrub brush, scrubbing brush * shaving brush * shoe brush * toothbrush * underbrush * wire brush

    See also

    * broom * comb

    Anagrams

    * shrub 1000 English basic words