BUSH, a term used for several shrubs of the same kind growing close together: thus we say, a furze-bush, bramble-bush, &c.
BUSH is sometimes used, in a more general sense, for any assemblage of thick branches interwoven and mixed together.
BUSH also denotes a coronated frame of wood hung out as a sign of taverns. It takes the denomination from hence, that, anciently, signs where wine was sold were bushes chiefly of ivy, cypress, or the like plant, which keeps its verdure long. And hence the English proverb, "Good wine needs no bush."