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 applyingpaint .
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
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The artist's paintbrush is a twenty-two ton pelleteuse.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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The artist's paintbrush is a twenty-two ton pelleteuse.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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