[f. BUSH v.1]

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  1.  Training on bushes (obs.), setting with bushes.

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c. 1420.  Pallad. on Husb., XI. 33. Trailyng, repairyng, bosshyng vyne clene.

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1843.  Carlyle, Past & Pr., II. iii. (1872), 46. We hear not … by what methods he preserved his game, whether by ‘bushing’ or how.

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1875.  ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, I. I. i. § 5–7. Bushing the stubbles interferes with the drag-net.

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  2.  Growing bushy; forming a bush.

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1597.  Gerard, Herbal, 739. The goodly shadowe which they make with their thicke bushing and clyming.

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1610.  Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. iii. 6. The braunching and bearing of Plants, Bushing of Shrubs.

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