Bushed

ppl. a. [f. BUSH sb.¹, v.¹ + -ED.]

  † 1.  Of plants or shrubs: Formed into a bush.

1573.  Tusser, Husb. (1878), 95. Bassel, fine and busht, sowe in May.

1597.  Gerard, Herbal, xxxiv. § 1. 239. Leaues … bushed or braunched at the top.

  2.  Covered with bushes or ‘bush.’

1868.  Dilke, Greater Brit., II. III. vi. 62. The coastlands … are exhausted, densely bushed, and uninhabited.

1883.  Miss Broughton, Belinda, III. III. vii. 22. The homely loveliness of bushed bank.

  b.  Protected with bushes. (Cf. BUSH v.¹ 2.)

1884.  Illust. Lond. News, 29 Nov., 539. It matters but little what the fence may be—a bushed or unbushed one.

  3.  transf. Having a bushy head of hair.

1494.  Fabyan, VII. ccxxiv. 251. For that tyme clerkes vsed busshed and brayded hedys.

1552.  Huloet, Boye with a bushed heade, comatulus.

1623.  Favine, Theat. Hon., XI. xiii. 235. A great head, thickly bushed and tufted with haire.

1849.  Lytton, K. Arthur, VI. cxxxi. Hideous visage bush’d with tawny hair.

  b.  Of the hair: Spreading like a bush, bushy; also bushed out, up.

1535.  Coverdale, Song of Sol. v. 11. The lockes of his hayre are buszshed, browne as the euenynge.

1779.  Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 95. The hair of the women was bushed out also.

1842.  Prichard, Nat. Hist. Man, 24. Frizzling hair … bushed out round their heads.

  4.  slang. At ‘Beggar’s Bush.’ ? Obs.

1812.  J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Bush’d, poor; without money.

  5.  Lost in the bush (sb.¹ 9). Cf. bogged.

1856.  Tait’s Mag., XXIII. 740. I narrowly escaped being ‘bushed.’

1881.  A. C. Grant, Bush-Life Queensland, II. xxxi. 154. John feared that he might get bushed.