brushed

Adjective

brushed (comparative more brushed, superlative most brushed)

1. Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish.
   • The brushed aluminum vase had a soft appearance.
   • One of the most pleasing finishes which is put upon art metal lamps, gas and electric portable reading lamps is the clouded finish of either brushed copper or brushed brass.1911 February, Royal F. Clark, “Production of the Clouded Brass or Copper Finish upon Art Metal Lamps”, in Metal Industry, volume 9, page 77
2. Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.
   • This boy is standing there with very brushed hair .2012, Kevin Sampson, Freshers, page 33
   • His posture balletic, his white whiskers mad as a cat's, his formal coat very brushed and very blue , muttering infamies at me all the while .2012, Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham
   1. Having been processed by rotating brushes that loosen and remove dirt.
      • The decay in sound unbrushed, brushed, and washed fruit, and in fruit all of which has been injured by the clippers in picking, by stems puncturing other oranges or by abrasions of other kinds.1906, “Loss by Decay in Oranges”, in Industrial Refrigeration, volume 30, page 313
      • Most of the shipments have included duplicate lots of apparently sound brushed or unbrushed fruit, sound washed; the regular commercially packed fruit and oranges showing visible mechanical injury.1907 June 15, “Fruit Transportation and Storage Investigations”, in California Fruit Grower, volume 35, page 5
3. Having been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb.
   • I recommended the forming of brushed swarms about 15 years ago, in the American Apiculturist, and made them on the old stand as well as on a new stand in uncounted numbers, with the result that these swarms always worked with the same vigor as natural swarms, so I know what I say.1900, L. Stachelhausen, “A New Management for Comb-Honey Production”, in Gleanings in Bee Culture, volume 28, page 840
   • When I make shaken or brushed swarms I usually wait till queen cells are found with eggs or larvae in them, although I do not think this is essential.1907 August, F. Greiner, “Shaken Swarms”, in The American Bee Keeper, volume 17, page 170
4. Having been written or painted using a brush.
   • The sparse drip patterns of his "preliminary" drip paintings were deposited over a foundation of brushed paint (see, for example, Water Birds, shown in color plate 13).2003, J. Casti, A. Karlqvist, Art and Complexity, page 134
   • The fact that Blakeney's "boy" had been murdered as well as his master, that he was most likely a member of the Win Hu Tong, that Ligan—if it were really he—had been guildty of the double murder and caught by Win Hu men, the terrible torutre that could only have been inflicted by Chines pointed...2019, G. H. Teed, The Pearls of Doom, page 56
5. Covered in brush or scrub.
   • Other data obtained indicate that an average holding having 20 to 25 acres cleared and also 6 or 8 acres of brushed pasture can support 4 milk cows and 3 head of young cattle.1931, W. A. Hartman, J. D. Black, Economic Aspects of Land Settlement in the Cut-over Region of the Great Lakes States, page 33
   • The mounted detachments at hand had found the heavily brushed country to be difficult for cavalry operations.2015, Clifford Dowdey, Lee: A Biography
6. Having had brush or scrub removed.
   • The following year, some of last year's brushed land is stumped, the clover turned under, manure from the stock used on it, and roots for the following winter planted, any surplus land being used for the Upper Wis consin cash crop, potatoes .1917 January, William W. Carson, “The Settler in Upper Wisconsin”, in The Country Magazine, volume 11, number 4, page 163
   • Unless the brushed areas are quickly seeded they grow up to weeds and are useless for forage.1919, John Swenehart, W. N. Clark, Land Clearing Contests Help Clear Land, page 10