Brushed

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish.

    "The brushed aluminum vase had a soft appearance."

  2. 2
    Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.

    "This boy is standing there with very brushed hair ."

  3. 3
    Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.; Having been processed by rotating brushes that loosen and remove dirt.

    "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."

  4. 4
    Having 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."

  5. 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)."

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  1. 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."

  2. 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 ."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing wordnet
  2. 2
    (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush wordnet
  3. 3
    touched lightly in passing; grazed against wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of brush form-of, participle, past

    "He brushed past, doing no harm but not apologizing for his contact either."

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