brush

This form of agriculture involved clearing woodland, burning the felled brush over the cleared plot, mixing the ash into the soil, and then cultivating the prepared fields.

In this part of the rain forest, therefore, red and orange are the best colors for signaling, and they are the colors used in signals by the ground-walking Australian brush turkey.

And the object was to produce a constant stream of paint to create continuous lines, because as you know when you use a brush directly on a canvas you get broken lines.

Besides her excellent technical skills, like her use of brush strokes and color to make an impression, both perspective come through.

Most engravings, for example, are best lit from the left, as befits the work of right-handed artists, who generally prefer to have the light source on the left so that the shadow of their hand does not fall on the tip of the engraving tool or brush.

I gave it a quick brush with my hair brush.

My first brush with a headmaster came six years ago.

The corporation is fighting to survive its second brush with bankruptcy.

I felt her dark brown hair brushing the back of my shoulder.

She knelt and brushed her lips softly across Michael's cheek.

Take a sheet of filo pastry and brush it with melted butter.

Using a small brush, he brushed away the fine sawdust.

She brushed away tears as she spoke of him.

She brushed the powder out of her hair.

He brushed by with a perfunctory wave to the crowd.

Something brushed against her leg.

She laughed, and brushed past me out of the room.