noun

• (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
  "I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn."
• (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
  "If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue."
• (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
  "As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth’d gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar’s wallet for its’ proviſion."
• (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

verb

• (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
  "Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene."

noun

• (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

noun

• (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
  "Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned."
• (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
  "I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth."
• (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
• (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.