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best(2) (iou) and bulrush (iou)


best(2) (iou)



best verb trans. colloq. M19.
[from BEST adjective, noun, & adverb: cf. WORST verb.]
Get the better of; take advantage of; defeat, outwit.
bester noun a person who gets the better of another; a cheat: M19.

bulrush (iou)



bulrush noun. Also bullrush. LME.
[Prob. from BULL noun1 & adjective, with the sense 'large, coarse' (cf. bullfrog, bullfinch), + RUSH noun1.]
Any of various tall water-plants resembling rushes, esp. (a) the club-rush Schoenoplectus lacustris; (b) a reed-mace of the genus Typha; (c) (in the Bible) a papyrus plant.
seek a knot in a bulrush: see KNOT noun1.
Bible (AV): Exodus 2:3 She tooke for him an arke of bul-rushes. M. Webb Tall bulrushes with their stout heads of brown plush.
Comb.: bulrush millet a millet, Pennisetum americanum, with a long spike of flowers.