Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A brush for applying paint.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, the shrubby St. John's-wort, Hypericum proliftcum, so called from its brush of yellow stamens; also the king-devil, Hieracium præaltum, named with reference to the yellow flower-head.
  • noun A brush for applying paint.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A brush used to apply paint.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A thin brush for applying paint.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint)

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Examples

  • The artist's paintbrush is a twenty-two ton pelleteuse.

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  • The artist's paintbrush is a twenty-two ton pelleteuse.

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  • Pelosi gets caught bloviating about the same national securty issue that she had full knowledge of. its called the paintbrush of hypocrisy.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Pelosi gets caught bloviating about the same national securty issue that she had full knowledge of. its called the paintbrush of hypocrisy.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Pelosi gets caught bloviating about the same national securty issue that she had full knowledge of. its called the paintbrush of hypocrisy.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Pelosi gets caught bloviating about the same national securty issue that she had full knowledge of. its called the paintbrush of hypocrisy.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Pelosi gets caught bloviating about the same national securty issue that she had full knowledge of. its called the paintbrush of hypocrisy.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Pelosi gets caught bloviating about the same national securty issue that she had full knowledge of. its called the paintbrush of hypocrisy.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Pelosi gets caught bloviating about the same national securty issue that she had full knowledge of. its called the paintbrush of hypocrisy.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

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