Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The hobble-bush or American wayfaring-tree, Viburnum alnifolium.

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Examples

  • An unseen limb struck him cruelly across the face, and a moose-bush tripped him flat.

    The Flaming Jewel 1899

  • An unseen limb struck him cruelly across the face, and a moose-bush tripped him flat.

    The Flaming Jewel 1899

  • Now Quintana, keeping a tree in line, brushed with his little back a leafy moose-bush that stood swaying as he avoided it.

    The Flaming Jewel 1899

  • Now Quintana, keeping a tree in line, brushed with his lithe back a leafless moose-bush that stood swaying as he avoided it.

    The Flaming Jewel 1899

  • The shades of green and brown are infinite; the dull red of the hemlock bark glows in the sun, the russet of the changing moose-bush becomes brilliant; there are silvery openings here and there; and everywhere the columns rise up to the canopy of tender green which supports the intense blue sky and holds up a part of it from falling through in fragments to the floor of the forest.

    In the Wilderness Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • The forest was of hard-wood, and open, except for a thick undergrowth of moose-bush.

    In the Wilderness Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • This moose-bush is most annoying stuff to travel through in a rain; for the broad leaves slap one in the face, and sop him with wet.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • This moose-bush is most annoying stuff to travel through in a rain; for the broad leaves slap one in the face, and sop him with wet.

    In the Wilderness Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • The forest was of hard-wood, and open, except for a thick undergrowth of moose-bush.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • The shades of green and brown are infinite; the dull red of the hemlock bark glows in the sun, the russet of the changing moose-bush becomes brilliant; there are silvery openings here and there; and everywhere the columns rise up to the canopy of tender green which supports the intense blue sky and holds up a part of it from falling through in fragments to the floor of the forest.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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