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skirmishes
A brief fight or encounter between small groups, usually an incident of a battle
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encounters
A hostile or adversarial confrontation:
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clashes
(Military) A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
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rebuffs
An abrupt, blunt refusal of offered advice, help, etc.
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brakes
A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car. [from 18th c.]
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spinneys
(UK) A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds.
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scrubs
An area covered with such vegetation; shrubland.
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hedges
A means of protection or defense, especially against financial loss:
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shrubberies
A planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it.
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covers
A cover charge.
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scraps
A fight or quarrel
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grazes
A slight scratch or scrape caused by grazing
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strokes
A distinctive effect or deft touch, as in literary composition.
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taps
A device used to dispense liquids.
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rubs
The application of friction and pressure:
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skims
Something that has been skimmed.
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flicks
A light quick blow, jerk, or touch:
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sweeps
To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
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whisks
To move, remove, carry, brush (away, off, out, etc.) forcefully and speedily, as with a quick, sweeping motion
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touches
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
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scuffles
To struggle or fight in rough confusion
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paints
To serve as a surface to be coated with paint:
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grooms
To clean and curry (a horse, dog, etc.)
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frays
To wear away (the edges of fabric, for example) by rubbing.
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fights
To try to overcome; struggle against or contend with
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conflicts
(Obs.) To fight; battle; contend
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combs
To move a comb through (the hair) so as to arrange or groom:
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cleans
To be made clean
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smooths
To cause to appear less harsh or severe than is the case:
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wipes
To clean or dry in this manner
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shaves
To barely touch or just miss touching in passing; graze
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kisses
To touch lightly or gently:
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thickets
The definition of a thicket is a dense area of bushes and small trees.
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copses
The definition of a copse is an area of trees or a dense growth of bush.
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cut
A cutting or being cut
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groves
The definition of a grove is a group of trees either planted to produce fruit or nuts or a group of trees naturally growing without much growing underneath.
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run-ins
An encounter; a scrape or brush; especially one involving trouble or difficulty.
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insults (related)
Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
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bushes (related)
Land remote from settlement:
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battles (related)
An intense competition:
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  • The horns are more or less lyrate,and generally developed in both sexes; there are frequently brushes of hair on the knees.

  • Among other manufactures are brushes, boilers and the like, machinery, metal ware generally, the cases and other parts of watches.

  • The larvae are active and voracious little grub-like creatures (known in the United States as "wrigglers"), with large heads and jaws provided with a pair of brushes, which sweep food-particles into the mouth.

  • It has a Protestant and a Roman Catholic church and manufactures of brushes, plush goods, cigars and margarine.

  • It has a considerable shipping trade, and manufactories of tobacco and cigars, chocolate, margarine, oil, chemicals, brushes, vinegar, soap, guano and perfumery.

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