Definition of "brush" []

• A device consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, or painting. (noun)
• The act of using this device. (noun)
• A light touch in passing; a graze. (noun)
• An instance of contact with something undesirable or dangerous: a brush with the law; a brush with death. (noun)
• A bushy tail: the brush of a fox. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Lemme brush it awf. *brush brush, brush brush* It doan’t kum awf."
• "_His_ gilding is one part gold to eleven other parts of brass and rubbish, and it has been laid on him with a brush -- _a brush_ -- pah! of course he will be as black as a crock in a few years 'time, whilst I am as bright as when I first was made, and, unless I am burnt as my Cordova burnt its heretics, I shall shine on forever. ""
• "A few days before their arrival, Nelson had had what he called a brush with the enemy."