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Stachelhausen, “A New Management for Comb-Honey Production”, in Gleanings in Bee Culture, volume 28, page 840:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1907 August, F. Greiner, “Shaken Swarms”, in The American Bee Keeper, volume 17, page 170:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1907, Ernest Rob Root, Facts about Bees, page 56:", "text": "But when one practices this method of making artificial, shaken, or brushed swarms, he should remember that probably nothing will be accomplished in swarm prevention by shaking unless the bees are actually preparing to swarm.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Having been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb." ], "id": "en-brushed-en-adj-lAno3bb4", "links": [ [ "beekeeping", "beekeeping" ], [ "artificially", "artificially" ], [ "swarm", "swarm" ], [ "brushed", "brushed" ], [ "honeycomb", "honeycomb" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(beekeeping) Having been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb." ], "topics": [ "agriculture", "beekeeping", "business", "lifestyle" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "2003, J. Casti, A. Karlqvist, Art and Complexity, page 134:", "text": "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).", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2019, G. H. Teed, The Pearls of Doom, page 56:", "text": "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 strongly enough to the affair being one of Chinese tong vengeance; and the \"brushed\" characters on the rice paper seemed to give additional weight to the evidence.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2021, Abé Markus Nornes, Brushed in Light: Calligraphy in East Asian Cinema, page 2:", "text": "This is natural, considering the place of the brushed word in both public and private space.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2024, M.G. Sheftall, Hiroshima:", "text": "The only worded text on the memorial is to be found on its rear surface, which features an inscription carved after the brushed calligraphy original of its author, Miyakawa Masa'omi, who was principal in 1948 of the coed high school Ichijo became after the postwar national education reforms.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Having been written or painted using a brush." ], "id": "en-brushed-en-adj-5hlkmm4b" }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1931, W. A. Hartman, J. D. 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Carson, “The Settler in Upper Wisconsin”, in The Country Magazine, volume 11, number 4, page 163:", "text": "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 .", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1919, John Swenehart, W. N. Clark, Land Clearing Contests Help Clear Land, page 10:", "text": "Unless the brushed areas are quickly seeded they grow up to weeds and are useless for forage.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Hamish Kimmins, Juan A. Blanco, Brad Seely, Forecasting Forest Futures, page 93:", "text": "In the partial brushed plot, 5m-wide strips with no aspen removed were left adjacent to 7m-wide strips in which all the aspen had been removed mechanically.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Having had brush or scrub removed." ], "id": "en-brushed-en-adj-QdlUChFB" } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈbɹʌʃt/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "audio": "en-gb-brushed.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/03/En-gb-brushed.ogg/En-gb-brushed.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/En-gb-brushed.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ʌʃt" } ], "word": "brushed" } { "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "verb form" }, "expansion": "brushed", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "He brushed past, doing no harm but not apologizing for his contact either.", "type": "example" } ], "form_of": [ { "word": "brush" } ], "glosses": [ "simple past and past participle of brush" ], "id": "en-brushed-en-verb-uLttvd8i", "links": [ [ "brush", "brush#English" ] ], "tags": [ "form-of", "participle", "past" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈbɹʌʃt/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "audio": "en-gb-brushed.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/03/En-gb-brushed.ogg/En-gb-brushed.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/En-gb-brushed.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ʌʃt" } ], "word": "brushed" }
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