brushedadj/ˈbɹʌʃt/

• 1

  Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish.

  • The brushed aluminum vase had a soft appearance.
  • One of the most pleasing finishes which is put upon art metal lamps, gas and electric portable reading lamps is the clouded finish of either brushed copper or brushed brass.
• 2

  Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.

  • This boy is standing there with very brushed hair .
  • His posture balletic, his white whiskers mad as a cat's, his formal coat very brushed and very blue , muttering infamies at me all the while .
• 3

  agriculturebusinesslifestyleHaving been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.

  • The decay in sound unbrushed, brushed, and washed fruit, and in fruit all of which has been injured by the clippers in picking, by stems puncturing other oranges or by abrasions of other kinds.
  • Most of the shipments have included duplicate lots of apparently sound brushed or unbrushed fruit, sound washed; the regular commercially packed fruit and oranges showing visible mechanical injury.
• 4

  agriculturebeekeepingbusinessHaving been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb.

  • I recommended the forming of brushed swarms about 15 years ago, in the American Apiculturist, and made them on the old stand as well as on a new stand in uncounted numbers, with the result that these swarms always worked with the same vigor as natural swarms, so I know what I say.
  • When I make shaken or brushed swarms I usually wait till queen cells are found with eggs or larvae in them, although I do not think this is essential.
• 5

  Having been written or painted using a brush.

  • The sparse drip patterns of his "preliminary" drip paintings were deposited over a foundation of brushed paint (see, for example, Water Birds, shown in color plate 13).
  • The fact that Blakeney's "boy" had been murdered as well as his master, that he was most likely a member of the Win Hu Tong, that Ligan—if it were really he—had been guildty of the double murder and caught by Win Hu men, the terrible torutre that could only have been inflicted by Chines pointed strongly enough to the affair being one of Chinese tong vengeance; and the "brushed" characters on the rice paper seemed to give additional weight to the evidence.
• 6

  Covered in brush or scrub.

  • Other data obtained indicate that an average holding having 20 to 25 acres cleared and also 6 or 8 acres of brushed pasture can support 4 milk cows and 3 head of young cattle.
  • The mounted detachments at hand had found the heavily brushed country to be difficult for cavalry operations.
• 7

  Having had brush or scrub removed.

  • The following year, some of last year's brushed land is stumped, the clover turned under, manure from the stock used on it, and roots for the following winter planted, any surplus land being used for the Upper Wis consin cash crop, potatoes .
  • Unless the brushed areas are quickly seeded they grow up to weeds and are useless for forage.

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