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 silversmiths and gilders, for scrubbing silver, copper, or brass pieces, in order to the gilding of them. There is a method of dyeing or colouring leather, performed by only rubbing the colour on the skin with a brush. This the French leather-gilders call broussure; being the lowest of all the sorts of dye allowed by their statutes.
Brush of a Fox, among sportsmen, signifies his drag or tail, the tip or end of which is called the chape.
BRUSH is also used in speaking of a small thicket or coppice. In this sense the word is formed from the middle-age Latin bruscia, bruscius, which signifies the same.
Brush-Wood denotes small slender wood or spray. See Browse.