BRUSH, among painters, a larger and coarser kind of a pencil made of hogs bristles, wherewith to lay the colours on their large pieces. The Chinese painters brush consists of the stalk of a plant; whose fibres being fretted at both ends, and tied again, serve for a brush.
Wire-Brushes, are used by silver smiths and gilders, for scrubbing silver, copper, or brass pieces, in order to the gilding of them.