Bushy state or quality.

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1730–6.  in Bailey; hence in Johnson.

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1790.  Bewick, Hist. Quadrupeds (1807), 277. The bushiness of its hair.

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1851.  Glenny, Handbk. Fl. Gard., 210. Bushiness and compactness of growth.

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1875.  Masson, Wordsw., &c. 175. The bushiness of his [Scott’s] eyebrows.

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