[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an implement consisting of bristles, hair, or the like, set in or attached to a handle, used for painting, cleaning, polishing, grooming, etc.", "one of a pair of devices consisting of long, thin handles with wire bristles attached, used in jazz or dance bands for keeping a soft, rhythmic beat on the trap drums or the cymbals.", "the bushy tail of an , especially of a fox.", "Electricity.a conductor, often made of carbon or copper or a combination of the two, serving to maintain electric contact between stationary and moving parts of a machine, generator, or other apparatus. brush discharge brush discharge.", "a conductor, often made of carbon or copper or a combination of the two, serving to maintain electric contact between stationary and moving parts of a machine, generator, or other apparatus.", "brush discharge brush discharge.", "a feathery or hairy tuft or tassel, as on the tip of a kernel of grain or on a man's hat.", "an act or instance of brushing; application of a brush.", "a light, stroking touch.", "a brief conflict or fight; skirmish :He has already had one brush with the law.Synonyms: encounter , action , engagement", "a close approach, especially to something undesirable or harmful:a brush with disaster."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to sweep, paint, clean, polish, etc., with a brush.", "to lightly in passing; pass lightly over:His lips brushed her ear.", "to remove by brushing or by lightly passing over:His hand brushed a speck of lint from his coat."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to move or skim with a slight contact."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to revive, review, or resume (studies, a skill, etc.):Alsobrush up.She's thinking of brushing up on her tennis.", "to rebuff; send away:She had never been brushed off so rudely before.", "to disregard; ignore:Our complaints were simply brushed aside."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a dense growth of bushes, shrubs, etc.; scrub; thicket.", "a pile or covering of lopped or broken branches; brushwood .", "bushes and low trees growing in thick profusion, especially close to the ground.", "Also called brushland .land or an area covered with thickly growing bushes and low trees.", "backwoods; a sparsely settled wooded region."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Katharine,1902–52,U.S. novelist and short-story writer."]}]