Brush, n. 1. Skirmish, engagement, rencounter, encounter, battle, contest, fight, conflict, collision, action, affair.

2. Thicket, bushes, shrubs, brushwood.

Brushwood, n. Underwood, shrubs, bushes, brush.

Brusque, a. [Fr.] Rude, rough, blunt, unceremonious, abrupt, bluff, gruff, ungentle, uncivil, ungracious, bearish, discourteous, uncourteous, impolite.

Brutal, a. 1. Savage, ferocious, cruel, inhuman, unfeeling, barbarous, barbarian, fell, barbaric, ruthless, truculent, bloody, brutish, brute.

2. Churlish, gruff, bearish, harsh, uncivil, rude, rough, impolite, unmannerly, brusque, ungentlemanly.

3. Gross, coarse, sensual, carnal, brutish, beastly, bestial.

Brutality, n. Savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart.

Brute, n. 1. Beast (in a wild state), quadruped, four-footed animal, ferocious animal.

2. Ruffian, barbarian, brutal monster.

Brute, a. 1. Irrational, void of reason.

2. Bestial, savage, barbarous, brutal.

3. Rough, rude, uncivilized.

Brutish, a. 1. Brutal.

2. Irrational, brute.

3. Stupid, dull, insensible.

4. Gross, carnal, sensual, bestial, beastly.

Brutum fulmen, [L.] Harmless thunderbolt, loud but harmless threatening, empty sound.