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BRUSH
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English
English : of uncertain origin. It may be a nickname for someone thought to resemble a brush (Middle English brusche, from Old French brosse), or a metonymic occupational name for a brush maker. It could also be from a related word, brusche ‘cut wood’, ‘branches lopped off trees’ (Old French brousse), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a forester or woodcutter, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a scrubby area of country, from Old French broce ‘brushwood’, ‘scrub’, ‘thicket’ (Late Latin bruscia).Respelling of German Brusch or Brüsch, a topographic name from the field name Brüsch (Middle High German brüsch ‘heather’, ‘broom’ or ‘brush’).
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Tamil
Brush
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Tamil
Paint brush, Daughter of God
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English (southern)
English (southern) : habitational name from places in Gloucestershire and Middlesex, so named from Old English strÅd ‘marshy ground overgrown with brushwood’. Strood in Kent is named with the same word, and some examples of the surname are no doubt derived from this term in independent use.
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English and northern Irish
English and northern Irish : habitational name from places called Tournay in Calvados and Orne in northern France. In some cases it could be of English origin, from any of the places called Thorney, in Cambridgeshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, and Sussex, mostly named from Old English þorn ‘thorn tree’ + ēg ‘island’, although the Nottinhamshire example is from Old English þorn + haga ‘enclosure’.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Torna ‘descendant of Torna’, a personal name.German (eastern) : topographic name and habitational name derived from a Slavic word, tarn-, meaning ‘brush made of thorns’.
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English
English : from Old English dūst ‘dust’, applied as a nickname, possibly for someone with a dusty complexion or hair (as, for example, a miller), or for a worthless person.North German : possibly a Westphalian habitational name from a farm named with dost ‘bush’, ‘brush’. However, the word also means ‘fine dust’, ‘flour’ and may have been applied as an occupational nickname for a miller. Compare 1.
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Hindu
Paint brush, Daughter of God
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, northern Middle English kerr (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed’, ‘left-handed’.Irish : see Carr.This surname has also absorbed examples of German Kehr.
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English
English : habitational name from Heston, Middlesex, named with Old English hǣs ‘brushwood’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
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English
English : topographic name from Old Norse storð ‘brushwood’ or ‘young plantation’. There is a place so named in Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire), as well as a High Storrs in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, both named from this word.
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English
English : habitational name, probably from Long Riston in East Yorkshire, named from Old English hrīs ‘brushwood’ + tūn ‘farmstead’.
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English scrogge ‘brushwood’.Scottish : habitational name from Scrogges in Peeblesshire.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Fine paint brush
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English
English : topographic name from Old English grǣfe ‘brushwood’, ‘thicket’, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, for example in Cumbria, Lancashire, and Staffordshire.
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodha ‘descendant of Aodh’, a personal name meaning ‘fire’ (compare McCoy). In some cases, especially in County Wexford, the surname is of English origin (see below), having been taken to Ireland by the Normans.English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon and Worcestershire, so called from the plural of Middle English hay ‘enclosure’ (see Hay 1), or a topographic name from the same word.English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Dorset, Greater London (formerly in Kent and Middlesex), and Worcestershire, so called from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’, or a topographic name from the same word.English : patronymic from Hay 3.French : variant (plural) of Haye 3.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metronymic from Yiddish name Khaye ‘life’ + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), born in Delaware, OH, was descended from old New England families on both sides. Through the paternal line he was descended from George Hayes, who emigrated from Scotland in 1680 and settled in Windsor, CT.
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English
English : habitational name from Tydd St. Mary in Lincolnshire or Tydd St. Giles in Cambridgeshire, named probably with an unattested Old English word, tydd ‘shrubs’, ‘brush’, ‘wood’.
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Tamil
Paint brush
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English
English : of uncertain origin, probably from the Old Norse byname Strútr (from a vocabulary word referring to a cone-like ornament on a headdress or cap). Alternatively it may be a nickname for an argumentative person, from Middle English strut(t) ‘quarrel’.German : topographic name from Middle High German struot, strūt ‘brush’, ‘thicket’, ‘swamp’, or a habitational name from any of several places named Struth with this word.
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English
English : habitational name from Shrewsbury in Shropshire, which is named from an ancient district name derived from Old English scrobb ‘scrub’, ‘brushwood’, + Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified place’.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish tesler ‘carpenter’. Compare Tesler.German : variant of Teschner.English : from an agent derivative of Old English tǣsel ‘teasel’, hence an occupational name for someone whose job was to brush the surface of newly-woven cloth or to card wood preparatory to spinning, using the dry seed-heads of teasels (a kind of thistle).
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v. i.
To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.
imp. & p. p.
of Brush
a.
Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
a.
Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.
n.
To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.
n.
A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Brush
n.
To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.
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The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess.
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To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.
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Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.
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The brush turkey (Talegallus Lathami) of Australia. See Brush turkey.
n.
An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
n.
One who, or that which, brushes.
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Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
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Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.
n.
The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.
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Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.