[f. BRUSH sb.1 + -Y1.] Clothed or covered with ‘brush’ or brushwood.

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1719.  London & Wise, Compl. Gard., xxix. The Elms … must be good Brushy Trees from Top to Bottom.

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1874.  Coues, Birds N.-W., 145. It frequents brushy hilltops.

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1882.  M. Thompson, in Century Mag., June, 211.

        The belted halcyon laughs, the wren
Comes twittering from its brushy den.

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